- Arsenio Farell
Arsenio Farell Cubillas (
June 30 ,1921 –May 15 ,2005 ) was a controversialMexican politician affiliated to theInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Secretary of Labor in the cabinets ofMiguel de la Madrid andCarlos Salinas and headed the Federal Comptroller's Secretariat in the cabinet ofErnesto Zedillo Ponce de León .Farell Cubillas was born in
Mexico City to Enrique Farell Solá, a Spanish immigrant, and Consuelo Cubillas Gutiérrez. He received a bachelor, master and doctorate's degree in law from theNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also taught several courses for almost 19 years (1954 – 1973) before heading the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the López Portillo administration.During his lifetime, Farell was accused by several leftist activists of whistleblowing at the midst of the Mexican "dirty war", in which several university dissidents were massacred in Tlatelolco.Fact|date=June 2008
He was married to Rosa María Campa Padilla.
Source: "Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano", Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.
External links
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