| Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá | |
| Order: | Director-General of the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers |
| Term Start: | 4 January 1993 |
| Term End: | 1994 |
| Successor: | Manuel Aguilera Gómez |
| Order1: | Governor of San Luis Potosí |
| Term Start1: | 10 October 1991 |
| Term End1: | 9 October 1992 |
| Predecessor1: | Fausto Zapata |
| Successor1: | Teófilo Torres Corzo |
| Order2: | Director-General of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores |
| Term Start2: | 3 January 1991 |
| Term End2: | 10 October 1991 |
| Predecessor2: | Emilio Gamboa Patrón |
| Successor2: | José Juan de Olloqui y Labastida |
| Order3: | Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start3: | 1 November 1990 |
| Term End3: | 30 November 1990 |
| Predecessor3: | María Elena Chapa Hernández |
| Successor3: | Fernando Córdoba Lobo |
| Constituency4: | San Luis Potosí 6 |
| Order4: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start4: | 1 September 1988 |
| Term End4: | December 1990 |
| Predecessor4: | Guillermo Pizzuto Zamanillo |
| Successor4: | Antonio Sánchez Morales |
| Constituency5: | Federal District 22 |
| Term Start5: | 1 September 1964 |
| Term End5: | 31 August 1967 |
| Predecessor5: | Guadalupe Rivera Marín |
| Successor5: | María Guadalupe Aguirre Soria |
| Constituency6: | San Luis Potosí |
| Order6: | Senator |
| Term Start6: | 1 September 1982 |
| Term End6: | 31 August 1988 |
| Predecessor6: | Rafael Tristán López |
| Successor6: | Carlos Jonguitud Barrios |
| Order7: | Ambassador to Cuba |
| Term Start7: | 1980 |
| Term End7: | 1982 |
| Order8: | Ambassador to Chile |
| Term Start8: | 1972 |
| Term End8: | 1974 |
| Birth Date: | 1928 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | San Luis Potosí |
| Death Place: | México City |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Nationality: | Mexican |
| Occupation: | politician |
| Profession: | engineer |
Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá (10 March 1928 – 15 October 2017) was a Mexican politician and diplomat.
A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served for a time as president of the party's Mexico City chapter,[1] Martínez Corbalá was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1964 and served until 1967. He was ambassador to Chile between 1972 and 1974 when he witnessed the 1973 Chilean coup d'état against Salvador Allende. Martínez Corbalá was appointed ambassador to Cuba, from 1980 to 1982. He sat in the Senate for two terms, between 1982 and 1988, when he returned to the Chamber of Deputies. Near the end of 1990, Martínez Corbalá was named the director-general of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores, and took office as governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991. He stepped down in 1992, and later led the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers between 1993 and 1994. In 1992, the government of Chile awarded Martínez Corbalá the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.[2]
He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1990.[3]
Outside of politics, Martínez Corbalá was president of the Association of Engineers.[4] He died at the age of 89 on 15 October 2017.[5] [6]