Ruth Zavaleta Salgado (Tepecoacuilco, August 27, 1966) is a Mexican politician.
Zavaleta is from the state of Guerrero and studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1989 she was one of the founding members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). From 1997 to 1998 she was the deputy governor of social development of Mexico City and then two years of finance. From 2000 to 2003 she was in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District and the next three years she was chairman of the Venustiano Carranza district in Mexico City.
Zavaleta was elected in the Chamber of Deputies in 2006, and is Chairman of the Chamber for the 2007-2008 academic year. At the first session, with the President of Mexico addressing Congress every year, Zavaleta refused to represent the Chamber of Representatives and, together with the rest of the PRD, accused President Felipe Calderón of election fraud, the congressional banks.
On September 18, 2007, the Revolutionary People's Army (EPR), an extremist armed organization from its birthplace Guerrero, issued a communiqué in which the organization Zavaleta deplored "the roots of left in Mexico" forgotten. This was a response to an earlier ruling by Zavelta, in which she stated that radical armed groups do not solve Mexico's problems.
On November 25, 2009, Zavaleta announced her party membership. She gave the undemocratic character and the opposition to discussion within the party.
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