Guillermo Mercado Romero

Guillermo Mercado Romero
Guillermo Mercado Romero
Governor of Baja California Sur
	In office; April 5, 1993 – April 4, 1999
Preceded by	Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal
Succeeded by	Leonel Cota Montaño
Personal details
Born	1 March 1938 (age 86); La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Political party	PRI
Spouse	María Concepción Casas
Alma mater	University of Guadalajara
Occupation	politician

Guillermo Mercado Romero (born 1 March 1938) is a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Baja California Sur from 1993 to 1999. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).^[2] He also served in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.^[1]

Corruption charges

Mercado left office in 1999. In early 2001, Mercado and eighteen other former Mexican government officials were charged with diverting approximately $55 million in public funding.^[2] Mercado was indicted for two charges: Mercado's gubernatorial administration was accused of purchasing airline tickets for official government travel through a travel agency owned by his wife and daughter.^[2] Second, Mercado was also charged with improperly transferring ownership of public land to a private research institute during his tenure as governor.^[2]

Mercado's wife, Maria Concepcion Casas de Mercado, owned a condo in San Diego, California, which she sold in January 2001 for $330,000.^[2] She then purchased a new home in El Cajon, California, in February 2001, just one month later, for $188,000.^[2] In June 2001, U.S. immigration agents questioned Mercado at his home in El Cajon to determine his legal status.^[2] Mercado showed the investigators a valid pilot's license and Social Security card as proof that he was in the United States legally.^[2] Mercado also had a visa, which allows Mexicans living near the U.S. border to travel up to 25 miles inside the U.S. for up to three days.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Camp, Roderic Ai (2011). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition. University of Texas Press. p. 633. ISBN 9780292726345.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Fugitive ex-Mexican governor found". The Record (Stockton). Associated Press. 2001-09-20. Archived from the original on 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2012-03-08.

[bio-1] Camp, Roderic Ai (2011). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition. University of Texas Press. p. 633. ISBN 9780292726345.

[record-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Fugitive ex-Mexican governor found". The Record (Stockton). Associated Press. 2001-09-20. Archived from the original on 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2012-03-08.

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