Roger Aguilar Salazar

Roger Hervé Aguilar Salazar (September 12, 1938 – September 5, 2018) was a Mexican teacher, politician and 2018 Deputy-elect to the national Chamber of Deputies from the Third Federal Electoral District of Yucatán, based in Mérida. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Aguilar was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Yucatán in the 2018 general election on July 1, 2018. However, just months later, Aguilar died from cerebral hemorrhage on September 5, 2018, before taking office. Aguilar was the first left-wing politician to gain a seat in Chamber of Deputies through a majority vote in Yucatán state history.