René Juárez Cisneros

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Juárez and the second or maternal family name is Cisneros.

René Juárez Cisneros (8 June 1956 – 26 July 2021) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

René Juárez Cisneros
Federal Deputy in the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 September 2018 – 26 July 2021
53rd President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
In office 2 May 2018 – 16 July 2018
Preceded by	Enrique Ochoa Reza
Succeeded by	Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Senator of the Senate of the Republic
In office 1 September 2012 – 5 October 2016
Preceded by	Antelmo Alvarado García
Succeeded by	Esteban Albarrán Mendoza
Governor of Guerrero
In office 1 April 1999 – 31 March 2005
Preceded by	Ángel Aguirre Rivero
Succeeded by	Zeferino Torreblanca
Deputy for Guerrero's seventh district
In office 1 September 1994 – 31 August 1997
Preceded by	Gustavo Ojeda Delgado
Succeeded by	Gustavo Adolfo Torres Blanco
Municipal president of Acapulco
In office 1990–1992
Preceded by	Virgilio Gómez Moharro
Succeeded by	Antonio Piza Soberanis
Personal details
Born	(1956-06-08)8 June 1956 Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Died	26 July 2021(2021-07-26) (aged 65) Mexico City, Mexico
Cause of death	COVID-19
Resting place	Panteón de La Cruces, Acapulco[1]
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Occupation	Politician

Biography

Juárez Cisneros was born in the port city of Acapulco, Guerrero, in 1956.^[2]

From 1990 to 1993 he was the municipal president of Acapulco. In the 1994 general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the seventh district of Guerrero.^[3] He served as governor of Guerrero from 1999 to 2005.

In the 2012 general election he was elected to the Senate for Guerrero for the 2012–2018 term.^[2] He returned to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election as a proportional representation deputy for the fourth electoral region. During that session of Congress he was the coordinator of the PRI's parliamentary group.^[4] He was still serving as a deputy at the time of his death.^[5]

Cisneros died on 26 July 2021 aged 65, due to complications caused by a COVID-19 infection.^[6]

See also

• List of mayors of Acapulco (municipality)