Fidel Herrera Beltrán
Fidel Herrera Beltrán was a Mexican politician and lawyer affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as the governor of the state of Veracruz from 2004 to 2010.
Career
Herrera Beltrán was born in Nopaltepec, Veracruz, in 1949. He attended law school at the National [Autonomous University of Mexico] in Mexico City, where he graduated in 1971, and was a lawyer by profession.A member of Institutional Revolutionary Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on four occasions:
in 1973, to the 49th Congress for Twelfth federal [electoral district of Veracruz|Veracruz's 12th district] ;
in 1979, to the 51st Congress for Veracruz's 16th ;
in 1991, to the 55th Congress for Veracruz's 12th ;
and in 1997, to the 57th Congress for Veracruz's 14th.
In the 2000 general election he was elected to the Senate for Veracruz.
He was elected governor of Veracruz in 2004 and resigned his Senate seat on 2 September 2004.
In 2013, Forbes magazine named Herrera as one of the 10 most corrupt Mexican politicians, citing his alleged links to the Los Zetas drug-trafficking cartel.
He was appointed to serve as consul in Barcelona in 2015 but resigned that position in 2017 amid accusations that during his governorship state-run hospitals had used distilled water in lieu of medicines to treat sick children and had conducted fake HIV tests.