Manuel Cavazos Lerma

Manuel Cavazos Lerma
Governor of Tamaulipas
In office 1993–1999
Preceded by	Américo Villarreal Guerra
Succeeded by	Tomás Yarrington
Personal details
Born	12 March 1946 Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Profession	Economist, politician

Manuel Cavazos Lerma (born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican politician and economist from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as governor of Tamaulipas from 1993-1999.

Cavazos Lerma was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas on 12 March 1946; son of Manuel Cavazos Rodríguez and Clara Lerma Sánchez. He studied Economics in the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (1963-1968), where he has served as a professor.

He has been within the Institutional Revolutionary Party since 1972, where he formed part of the reoresentative in the states of Tamaulipas and Durango for the PRI. He was president of the Nacional Committee League for Revolutionary Economists (1982-1984), and served as the delegate for the PRI party in the states of San Luis Potosí, Baja California, Coahuila, Jalisco and Yucatán.

On 30 January 2012, the Attorney General of Mexico issued a communiqué ordering the past three governors of Tamaulipas—Manuel Cavazos Lerma, Eugenio Hernández Flores, and Tomás Yarrington—to remain in the country because they were being investigated for possible correlation with the Mexican drug cartels. The DEA has already accused Yarrington of laundering money for Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel from 1999 to 2004, his time as governor.

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