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Armando Leyson Castro (born 28 September 1956) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sinaloa. He was Municipal President of Guasave from 1999 to 2001. [1]
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