Héctor Murguía Lardizábal

Hector Murguia Lardizabal (born Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, March 13, 1953). He is married to Patricia Holguín Cárdenas and is the father to three children, Hector (1985), Patricia (1987), and Isabel (1989).

Hector Murguía graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey (ITESM), majoring in chemical engineering. In his twenties, from 1973 to 1975, he worked as a high school teacher at the Institute Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), at Monterrey, Nuevo León. He later taught for a year (1978-1979) at the Universidad Autonóma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Afterwards, he worked as the general manager of a bread factory. In 1978, he transferred back to Ciudad Juárez to work for a family-owned home improvement store, Maderería del Norte S.A. A year after, in 1979, he became the owner of a local manufacturing paint company, Química Industrial Fronteriza S.A. de C.V. (Pinturas Dekoro). He has been a Senator, Federal Deputy in the LXI Legislature and served as Mayor of Ciudad Juarez for 2004-2007 and 2010-2013.

In 1994 he was elected Senator of Chihuahua in conjunction with Martha Lara Alatorre, defeating the formula postulated by the National Action Party (PAN), headed by Luis H. Alvarez. He defeated Mr. Alvarez having the highest number of votes in any election in the state of Chihuahua.

In 2004 he defeated the PAN candidate, Cruz Perez Cuellar, in the race for mayor, making him the first PRI winning candidate in 12 years. During this term he constructed a peripheral ring road, Camino Real, which connected the north and south part of Ciudad Juarez benefitting over a million citizens in their commute to work. Further, his administration won national accolades for an energy project generating green energy from capturing methane gas from the city’s largest landfill. Additionally, 30 community centers were inaugurated in the city’s poorest and most marginalized neighborhoods to reconstruct the social fabric. In prior years, trash collection had been a major issue for the city of Juarez. During Mr. Murguia’s administration with the help of private organizations trash collection was made efficient and consistent.

In December 15, 2009 he applied for leave as Federal Deputy to seek his party's nomination for Governor of Chihuahua, but Cesar Duarte Jaquez was nominated.[1]

On March 10, 2010 he was nominated as the PRI's unity candidate for municipal president of City of Juárez. He was elected to a second term at the head of the city council in the elections of July 4, 2010, assuming office on October 10. During his term, one of his major accomplishments was bringing peace and security to the border city. From 2008 to 2010 Ciudad Juárez had occupied first place in the city with the highest homicide rates. During Mr. Murguia’s term his commitment and policies allowed for the homicide rate to decrease significalty from 3,000 a year to less than 300. Mr. Murguia’s administration was responsible for erecting the famous landmark “X” which was constructed as a tribute to Mexico’s president Benito Juarez. The X symbolizes the cross between two cultures the indigenous and the Spanish. The cross is also an Aztec religious symbol signifying the Fifth Sun.