Manuel Camacho Solís is a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician who served in the cabinets of presidents

President of Mexico

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 Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...

 and Carlos Salinas

Carlos Salinas

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. He belongs to the .

Political career

Camacho Solís joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI) in 1965, and in 1988 he became that party's general secretary.

Camacho met Carlos Salinas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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 (UNAM), where they became close friends. Camacho followed Salinas's trajectory in the Planning Ministry under the administration of Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...

. In 1985 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1986 he was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Urban Development. When Salinas took over the presidency

President of Mexico

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 in 1988, Camacho was appointed Head of Government of the Federal District

Head of Government of the Federal District

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 (until 1997, the Federal District

Federal district

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's Heads of Government, , were appointed by the President of the Republic).

On November 13, 1993 Camacho was designated Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)

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. In January 1994, due to the Zapatista

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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 uprising, Luis Donaldo Colosio

Luis Donaldo Colosio

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's death in March 1994 and a failed attempt to clench the party's presidential nomination, Camacho broke with the PRI on October 13, 1995. The complicated relationship between Carlos Salinas, Camacho Solis, Luis Donaldo Colosio and Ernesto Zedillo (who was selected to replace Colosio as Presidential candidate) was the source of many rumors surrounding Colosio's assassination.

During Ernesto Zedillo

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's presidency, Camacho stayed away from politics until 1999 when he announced his candidacy for the presidency for the Party of the Democratic Center, a party that he had co-founded with Marcelo Ebrard

Marcelo Ebrard

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Changing his strategy, in 2003 he became a federal deputy in the Chamber of Deputies representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution

Party of the Democratic Revolution

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. He was selected to serve as a plurinominal deputy through an indirect election.

In 2004 he joined Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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's political campaign. He writes a column in the Mexico City daily El Universal

El Universal (Mexico City)

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