Juan Nicasio Guerra Ochoa (born in Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

, 26 November 1954) is a Mexican politician, affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution

Party of the Democratic Revolution

The Party of the Democratic Revolution is a democratic socialist party in Mexico and one of 2 Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International...

 (PRD).

Juan N. Guerra's first degree is in law, and he also holds a master's and a doctorate in psychotherapy.
He was a member of the Liga comunista 23 de septiembre

Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre

The Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre , or LC23S, was a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla movement that emerged in Mexico in the early 1970s...

, the Patriotic and Revolutionary Party, the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico

The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico was a far-left political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party in 1988...

, and the Mexican Socialist Party

Mexican Socialist Party

The Socialist Mexican Party was the former left-wing Mexican political party immediate antecedent of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution, it was the last effort of unification of the different Mexican parties of left and the last political party that the socialist word in its name was...

 prior to being one of the founding members of the PRD upon its creation in 1989.
Within the PRD he has served as the Party State President in Sinaloa (1993–94), Secretary for Electoral Affairs of the National Executive Committee (2002–04), and the party's representative to the Federal Electoral Institute

Federal Electoral Institute

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 (2004–05).

In 1997, Head of Government of the Federal District

Head of Government of the Federal District

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 Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano appointed him Director of Legal and Government Affairs in his cabinet. In 1998 he served as the borough mayor of Milpa Alta

Milpa Alta

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Guerra Ochoa has served three terms as a federal deputy: he was elected from the PRD's party list to the 54th Congress (1988–91) and to the 56th Congress

LVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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 (1994–97), and for the 60th Congress

LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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 (2006–09) he was elected to represent the Federal District's Seventh District

Seventh Federal Electoral District of the Federal District

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At the start of the 2006–09 Congressional session, Guerra was mentioned as a possible leader of the PRD group in the Chamber of Deputies, but the position went to Javier González Garza.

External links

• Juan N. Guerra (Chamber of Deputies)
• Another Chamber of Deputies page