Pablo
Salazar Mendiguchía
"Chiapas: A New Beginning"
March
21, 2007
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Pablo
Salazar Mendiguchía outside the Fernando
Botero exhibit at the main library on the Berkeley
campus. |
In
2000, Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía was elected governor
of Chiapas after uniting a surprising coalition of parties
from across the political spectrum to defeat the perennial
incumbent — the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The first protestant to be elected governor of a Mexican
state in modern times, he ran on a platform that advocated
change for the region based on tolerance, education and rule
of law. On leaving office in 2006, Salazar pointed to the
fact that Chiapas was no longer in the news as evidence of
the success of his term in office.
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Governor
Salazar spoke on his term as governor of
Chiapas and the future of that Mexican state. |
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Governor
Salazar talks with students after his presentation. |
