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President Manuel Aguayo of the People’s Revolutionary Party took office in December. The forty-one-year-old candidate had been a member of the Institutional Workers Party, but he left and decided to form his own political party. He was known for his populist appeal, as he vowed to fight for the working people of Mexico and take on large corporations.
Aguayo was born in Tijuana to parents who worked in a factory. He went on to become a lawyer and worked as an activist. He was born for politics. He always loved giving speeches, and his legal training helped him persuade others of his ideas. Aguayo became the governor of the state of Baja California at age thirty-five. He took office as an idealist and wanted to make drastic changes. He made enemies within the Institutional Workers Party
