Carlos Castillo Peraza

Who was Carlos Castillo Peraza?

Carlos Enrique Castillo Peraza was an intellectual, journalist and Mexican politician, Member of the National Action Party of which he was the 15th President from 1993 to 1996.

Carlos Castillo Peraza was a lawyer in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, was a collaborator and contributor of many newspapers of the country and began like journalist of the El Diario de Yucatán. From 1967 he was became a member of the PAN and he occupied an ample variety of positions in his state structure as much national. During their management like National President of the PAN, their nearer collaborators were Jesus Galván Muñoz, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Caballero and Luis Correa Mena.

In 1980 and 1988, he was candidate to Governor of Yucatán and in 1984 to Municipal President of Mérida, he was elect Federal Deputy to the LIV Legislature and National President of the PAN and in 1997 he became a candidate of the Head of Government of the Federal District and being third in the elections, when finishing this process moved away officially of the policy and resigned to its active militancy in the PAN dedicating itself to academic activities until his death.