| Olegario Carrillo Meza | |
| Office1: | Member of the Congress of Sonora from the 20th district |
| Term Start1: | 16 September 1997 |
| Term End1: | 15 September 2000 |
| Predecessor1: | Lamberto Gálvez Díaz |
| Successor1: | Antonio Leyva Duarte |
| Office2: | Municipal president of Etchojoa |
| Term Start2: | 1994 |
| Term End2: | 1997 |
| Predecessor2: | Octavio Sandoval Martínez |
| Successor2: | Pablo Antonio Cruz Ontiveros |
| Birth Place: | Nayarit, Mexico |
| Citizenship: | Mexican |
| Party: | PMS (former) |
Olegario Carrillo Meza is a Mexican politician representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served in the LV Legislature of the Congress of Sonora from 1997 to 2000.
A native of Nayarit,[1] Carrillo Meza earned a degree in agronomy engineering in the Soviet Union thanks to a scholarship from the Unión General de Obreros y Campesinos (General Union of Workers and Farmers).[2] Upon his return to Mexico, he served as a regidor (city councillor) in Etchojoa, Sonora from 1988 to 1991 as a member of the Mexican Socialist Party (PMS), which merged into the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).[3] He was elected as the municipal president of Etchojoa Municipality in 1994, defeating Gildardo Grajeda of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to become the first PRD candidate to win a municipal race in Sonora.[3] [4] During his term, the Congress of Sonora appropriated part of the municipality to create the Benito Juárez Municipality.[3]
In 1997, Carrillo Meza was shortlisted by the PRD as a potential candidate in the gubernatorial election, but he declined in order to focus on campaigning for a spot in the state legislature.[5] He won a seat in the LV Legislature of the Congress of Sonora representing the 20th district of Etchojoa, serving a three-year term from 1997 to 2000.[3] [6] He became popular among the indigenous populations in the Valle del Mayo and the Valle del Yaqui.[7] He also unsuccessfully challenged for a seat in the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress in 2000, losing to Arturo León Lerma.[3]
Carrillo Meza left the PRD by endorsing PRI candidate Eduardo Bours for governor ahead of the 2003 election.[8]
Carrillo Meza founded the Unión Nacional de Organizaciones Regionales Campesinas y Autónomas (National Union of Farmers’ Regional Autonomous Organizations) in 1985 and has served as its national director since 2005.[1] He has advocated for farmers' rights to combat poverty among rural and indigenous populations,[9] [10] particularly in response to NAFTA.[11] [12] He also called on the government to cancel their contracts with Monsanto to grow genetically modified crops in the country.[13] On behalf of the union, he endorsed Claudia Pavlovich Arellano for governor of Sonora in 2015.[14]
His wife, Flora Lina Mungarro Garibay, served as municipal president of Benito Juárez from 2018 to 2021.[15]
There is a public library in Etchojoa named after him.[16]