Overview
- Pemex confirmed his death and expressed condolences, while PRI leaders Alejandro “Alito” Moreno and Rubén Moreira paid public tribute.
- He died on Friday night, October 31, 2025, according to multiple reports that were widely circulated on November 1.
- Rojas directed Pemex from 1987 to 1994, a span that bridged the final year of Miguel de la Madrid’s term and the Carlos Salinas de Gortari administration.
- He later headed the Federal Electricity Commission under Enrique Peña Nieto, leaving that post on February 4, 2014.
- A UNAM-trained public accountant born in Mexico City on September 15, 1944, he also served as federal comptroller (1983–1987), twice as a federal deputy, and as PRI caucus coordinator in the LXI Legislature; no cause of death was disclosed.