| Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda | |
| Office: | Rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa |
| Term Start: | June 8, 2005 |
| Term End: | June 8, 2009 |
| Predecessor: | Gómer Monárrez González |
| Successor: | Víctor Antonio Corrales Burgueño |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Death Place: | Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Alma Mater: | Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa |
Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda (October 25, 1955 – July 25, 2024) was a Mexican chemist, pharmacist, biologist and politician. He was a rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa from 2005 to 2009 and municipal president of Culiacán, Sinaloa, between January 2011 and February 2012. In 2024 he was shot dead in his vehicle in Culiacán.
Cuén Ojeda was born on October 25, 1955, in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico.[1] He studied at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, where he earned a PhD. After graduating from the university, he returned and was its rector from 2005 to 2009.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from the Institutional Revolutionary Party's proportional representation list for the first electoral region in the June 2024 general election.[2]
Cuén Ojeda died on July 25, 2024, after being shot in his vehicle near Culiacán. He was 68.[3]
On 11 August 2024 the federal attorney-general's office announced it was investigating a possible connection between Cuén Ojeda's murder and the Sinaloa drug-traffickers Ismael Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, who were taken into custody in the United States later that day in circumstances that remain unclear.[4]