Overview
- PAN leaders confirmed his death on December 30, with congressional coordinator Elías Lixa announcing the news and the party issuing public condolences.
- Family and close contacts reported he had been hospitalized in Houston for more than a week following a heart procedure that led to complications.
- His 1992 election as governor ended decades of PRI control in Chihuahua, and he served through 1998.
- He previously served as mayor of Ciudad Juárez from 1983 to 1986 after joining the National Action Party in 1982.
- At the federal level he was secretary of the Comptroller’s Office under President Vicente Fox, a plurinominal federal deputy, and Mexico’s ambassador to Canada.