| Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer | |
| Office: | Governor of Yucatan |
| Term Start: | 1 February 1988 |
| Term End: | 14 February 1991 |
| Predecessor: | Víctor Cervera Pacheco |
| Successor: | Dulce María Sauri Riancho |
| Office2: | President of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 1 November 1977 |
| Term End2: | 30 November 1977 |
| Predecessor2: | Martha Andrade de Del Rosal |
| Successor2: | Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri |
| Term Start3: | 1 September 1967 |
| Term End3: | 30 September 1967 |
| Predecessor3: | Alejandro Carrillo Marcor |
| Successor3: | Edgar Robledo Santiago |
| Term Start4: | 1 September 1976 |
| Term End4: | 31 August 1979 |
| Predecessor4: | Efraín Ceballos Gutiérrez |
| Successor4: | Jorge Jure Cejín |
| Term Start5: | 1 September 1967 |
| Term End5: | 31 August 1970 |
| Predecessor5: | Francisco Luna Kan |
| Successor5: | Jorge Carlos González |
| Birth Date: | 1924 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Death Place: | Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer (13 November 1924 – 7 April 2019) was a Mexican politician and diplomat who served as governor of the state of Yucatán. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Manzanilla Schaffer was the son of a revolutionary politician in Yucatán, the founder of the Anti-Reelection Party and a congressman.[1] He earned an undergraduate degree from the School of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master's degree in sociology from The New School for Social Research in New York, and a doctorate in law.[2]
He served as a legal assistant in the United Nations division of narcotics, as Mexico's ambassador to China and its first to North Korea, and for two terms as a member of the Senate and two as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Yucatán's second district.[1] [2] [3] [4] He exerted unusual independence as a congressman, on one occasion voting against President José López Portillo's amendment of Article 27 of the Constitution.[1] Elected to succeed Víctor Cervera Pacheco, he was governor of Yucatán from February 1988 to February 1991, when he resigned three years before his term was to have ended,[2] it is presumed at the urging of Cervera Pacheco and of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.[3] [4] [5]
Among other honours Manzanilla Schaffer was awarded the Medalla al Mérito Legislativo, the Knight Commander's Cross of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,[2] and the Jesús Reyes Heroles prize of the Agrupación Nacional de Egresados del Instituto de Capacitación Política of the PRI.[3]