Víctor Cervera | |
Birth Date: | 23 April 1936 |
Birth Place: | Dzemul, Yucatán, Mexico |
Death Place: | Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico |
Office: | Governor of Yucatán |
Term Start: | August 1, 1995 |
Term End: | July 31, 2001 |
Predecessor: | Federico Granja Ricalde |
Successor: | Patricio Patrón |
Term Start2: | February 16, 1984 |
Term End2: | January 31, 1988 |
Predecessor2: | Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón |
Successor2: | Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer |
Office3: | Secretary of Agrarian Reform |
President3: | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
Term Start3: | 1988 |
Term End3: | 1994 |
Predecessor3: | Rafael Rodríguez Barrera |
Successor3: | Miguel Limón Rojas |
Spouse: | Amira Hernández Guerra |
Víctor Manuel Cervera Pacheco (April 23, 1936 – August 18, 2004) was a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 1984 to 1988, and again from 1995 to 2001. From 1988 to 1994 Cervera served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform in the federal government.
Cervera was an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) while an elected official. He served as mayor of Mérida, Yucatán (1971–1973), local deputy in the Congress of Yucatán, Governor of Yucatán, federal deputy (for Yucatán's first district) in 1973–1976 and 1982–1984,[1] [2] and in the federal executive cabinet.
He died on August 18, 2004, from a heart attack in the city of Mérida.[3] [4]