Manuel Muñoz Rocha
Manuel Muñoz Rocha | |
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| Born | 8 December 1947 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| Party | PRI |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | Murder suspect, disappearance |
Manuel Muñoz Rocha[a] (born 8 December 1947) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He disappeared on 29 September 1994 after being accused of involvement in the murder of his party's general secretary, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu.
Life
Manuel Muñoz Rocha was born in Ciudad Victoria, capital of the state of Tamaulipas, on 8 December 1947. In the 1991 mid-term election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, representing Tamaulipas's 7th congressional district.[1][2]
He was formally charged with the 28 September 1994 murder of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the general secretary of the PRI. A warrant for his arrest was issued on 8 October, by which time he could not be located. He was declared to have disappeared in June 1999 and, in 2009, the arrest warrant expired.[3][4]
References
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Muñoz and the second or maternal family name is Rocha.
- ^ "Legislatura 55" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
- ^ Molina, Alicia (31 January 2022). "Manuel Muñoz Rocha, el político desaparecido implicado en la muerte de Ruiz Massieu". Cultura Colectiva. Mexico City: Vicasoen, S.A.P.I. de C.V.
- ^ Hernández Salinas, Joshua (5 April 2021). "Quién mató a Colosio y dónde está Manuel Muñoz Rocha: los misterios sin resolver del sexenio de Salinas". Infobae.
- ^ Castillo García, Gustavo (28 September 2014). "Muñoz Rocha ya no es buscado, a 20 años de la ejecución de Francisco Ruiz Massieu". La Jornada.