Guillermo Mercado Romero | |
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Governor of Baja California Sur | |
In office April 5, 1993 –April 4, 1999 | |
Preceded by | Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal |
Succeeded by | Leonel Cota Montaño |
Personal details | |
Born | La Paz,Baja California Sur,Mexico [1] | 1 March 1938
Political party | PRI |
Spouse | María Concepción Casas |
Alma mater | University of Guadalajara [1] |
Occupation | politician |
Guillermo Mercado Romero (born 1 March 1938) is a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Baja California Sur from 1993 to 1999. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). [2] He also served in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. [1]
Mercado left office in 1999. In early 2001,Mercado and eighteen other former Mexican government officials were charged with diverting approximately $55 million in public funding. [2] Mercado was indicted for two charges:Mercado's gubernatorial administration was accused of purchasing airline tickets for official government travel through a travel agency owned by his wife and daughter. [2] Second,Mercado was also charged with improperly transferring ownership of public land to a private research institute during his tenure as governor. [2]
Mercado's wife,Maria Concepcion Casas de Mercado,owned a condo in San Diego,California,which she sold in January 2001 for $330,000. [2] She then purchased a new home in El Cajon,California,in February 2001,just one month later,for $188,000. [2] In June 2001,U.S. immigration agents questioned Mercado at his home in El Cajon to determine his legal status. [2] Mercado showed the investigators a valid pilot's license and Social Security card as proof that he was in the United States legally. [2] Mercado also had a visa,which allows Mexicans living near the U.S. border to travel up to 25 miles inside the U.S. for up to three days. [2]
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