Victor Cervera
Víctor Manuel de Jesús Cervera Pacheco (Mérida, April 23, 1936 - August 18, 2004) was a Mexican politician and cacique.
Cervera Pacheco joined the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at a very young age. He was imprisoned by governor Luis Torres Mesías in 1967 for "agitation", but released after protests among the people. He became the youngest member of the Congress of Yucatán - even saying that he falsified his birth certificate to be elected - and became Mayor of Mérida in 1971.
In the 70's he was Secretary General of the National Federation of Confederations of Agriculture (CNC), a sector of the PRI. From 1973 to 1975 he was in the Chamber of Representatives, 1976 in Senator Chamber, and in 1982 he was again elected to the Chamber of Deputies. and will be in 1984 after the resignation of Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón interim governor of Yucatán.
Cervera was one of the most powerful politicians in Yucatán for decades. He was known for his authoritarian performance but was popular with the people. When Cervera resigned as Mayor of Mérida and the mayor's post in a legally dubious way admitted to Wilberth Chi Góngora, then Governor Carlos Loret de Mola, Cervera's political arch river, Chi Góngora resigned and fined Cervera. Then followed a kind of popular revival in favor of Cervera, where Loret de Mola's house was smoked with molotov cocktails. Yucateek politicians, both from the PRI and the opposition National Action Party (PAN), could not fulfill their functions without the approval of Cervera.
Cervera was known under the name of Bola, given by Loret de Mola, which means something like 'little boy' in Maya. He was a friend of Carlos Sansores Pérez who performed a similar role in Campeche.
From 1988 to 1994 he was Minister of Agriculture reform under President Carlos Salinas. In 1995 he was elected governor for the second time. Although re-election under the Mexican Constitution was actually forbidden, Cervera managed to implement a law change at the end of its first period, allowing a second term as long as the first ad interim. Cervera was succeeded in 2001 by PAN candidate Patricio Patrón, the first non-PRI governor for decades. Cervera died in 2004. His niece Ivonne Ortega is currently governor of Yucatán.
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