Silverio Cavazos
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Jesús Silverio Cavazos Ceballos (15 December 1968 – 21 November 2010) was a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 politician, the Governor of Colima
Governor of Colima
According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican entity is placed in a single individual, called the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Colima who is chosen for a period of 6 years and is...

 from 2005-09, elected after the death of Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes was a Mexican politician. At the time of his death he was serving as the governor of the western state of Colima, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party ....

. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...

 (PRI).

Cavazos was elected to finish the 2003–2009 constitutional period of Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes was a Mexican politician. At the time of his death he was serving as the governor of the western state of Colima, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party ....

, who won a special election after the ordinary elections were annulled. However, Vázquez Montes died in a plane crash in February 2005, for which it was necessary to call a third election, which was won by Cavazos.

He was killed outside his home by gunmen on 21 November 2010.

See also

  • List of Mexican state governors
  • Governor of Colima
    Governor of Colima
    According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican entity is placed in a single individual, called the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Colima who is chosen for a period of 6 years and is...

  • 2003 Colima state election
  • Colima gubernatorial election, 2005
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