Alfonso Durazo Montaño (born 11 July 1954) is a Mexican

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who served as chief

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and private secretary of

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Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the Nat ...

. Representing the

National Regeneration Movement The National Regeneration Movement (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation Morena (), is a major left-wing political party in Mexico, often described as oscillating between social democracy and populism. As of 2023, it is the la ...

(MORENA), he is the current

Governor of Sonora List of governors of the Mexican state of Sonora since 1911: *2021–present Alfonso Durazo Morena (political party), MORENA *2015–2021 Claudia Pavlovich Arellano Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI *2009–2015 Guillermo Padré ...

Early life and education

Durazo was born in

Bavispe Bavispe is a small town and a municipality in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Sonora. Geography Location The municipality is located in the northeast of the state at . The elevation of the administrative seat is 902 meters above sea lev ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...

, on 11 July 1954. For elementary school, he went to the ''General Miguel Samaniego'' school. For middle school, he went to the ''General Plutarco Elías Calles'' school in

Agua Prieta Agua Prieta ("dark water") is a town in the Agua Prieta Municipality in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Sonora. It stands on the Mexico–U.S. border, adjacent to the town of Douglas, Arizona, Douglas, Arizona. The municipality c ...

, Sonora. For high school he attended ''Instituto Soria'' in

Hermosillo Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's ...

, Sonora. He holds a

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from the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

, a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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, a master's degree in

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from the Sonoran Institute of Public Administration, AC, and a doctorate's degree in

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from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...

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Career

From 1992 to 1993, he served as private secretary of the

Secretary of Social Development The Secretariat of Welfare ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Bienestar'') is the government department in charge of social development efforts in Mexico. The Secretary of Welfare is a member of the Executive Cabinet, and is appointed at the discretion ...

Luis Donaldo Colosio Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President of Mexico, presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tiju ...

. When Colosio became the PRI candidate to the presidency of Mexico, Durazo continued to serve as Colosio's private secretary. In May 2000, he resigned from the PRI and joined the presidential campaign of Vicente Fox. Fox appointed Durazo as his private secretary after the July 2000 election and also became the presidential

in 2003. Durazo resigned from his positions in 2004 and heavily criticised Fox's administration. In March 2006, Durazo announced that he will be joining

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ...

's presidential campaign. On that year he was nominated Candidate for Senator in his home state,

. In January 2012 he joined again López Obrador's presidential campaign as General Manager in the State of Sonora. , he served as Deputy of the

LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union, the 62nd session of the Congress of Mexico, met from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2015. It consisted of Senators and Deputies in their respective chambers. All members of both the lower and ...

representing

. Andrés Manuel López Obrador reestablished the

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, previously abolished by the Peña administration, and named Durazo as the head of the agency.

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Perfil de Legislador
(in Spanish) 1954 births Living people Politicians from Sonora Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Citizens' Movement (Mexico) politicians Morena (political party) politicians National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana alumni Governors of Sonora Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico {{Mexico-politician-Morena-stub