Patricio Chirinos Calero

Patricio Chirinos Calero (born 27 July 1937) is a Mexican politician affliliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He has served in Congress and in the federal cabinet and was governor of Veracruz from 1992 to 1998.

Life and career Patricio Chirinos Calero was born in Pánuco, Veracruz, on 27 July 1937. (Allegations claim that he was born in Tamuín, San Luis Potosí, and was therefore ineligible to serve as governor of Veracruz.)

In the 1973 mid-terms, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Veracruz's 4th district. In 1988, incoming president Carlos Salinas de Gortari selected him to serve as secretary of urban development and ecology in his cabinet. He served a six-year term as governor from 1 December 1992 to 30 November 1998.

Family Chirinos's parents were Antonio Chirinos Gea, who served several terms as municipal president of Pánuco, and Catalina Calero Valdez. He has been married twice.