Javier García Paniagua

Javier García Paniagua was a Mexican politician who served as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1981 and held positions in the cabinet of President José López Portillo as Secretary of Agrarian Reform and Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare.
His name was frequently mentioned among the possible candidates to serve as President of Mexico for the 1982-88 term, but ultimately López Portillo chose Miguel de la Madrid to contend for the PRI in the 1982 general election.
He died in his native Jalisco on 25 November 1998.

Family

His father was. He married María Sorté, born María Harfuch Hidalgo. He was the father of Omar García Harfuch, the Secretary of Security and Civilian Protection in the cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum.