{{short description|Mexican politician}} {{family name hatnote|Labastida|Ochoa|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Francisco Labastida |image = Francisco Labastida Ochoa 2006.png | office = Senator for Sinaloa | term_start = 1 September 2006 | term_end = 31 August 2012 | predecessor = José Adalberto Castro Castro | successor = Daniel Amador Gaxiola |office1 = Secretary of the Interior of Mexico |president1 = Ernesto Zedillo |term_start1 = 3 January 1998 |term_end1 = 21 May 1999 |lieutenant1 = |predecessor1 = Emilio Chuayffet |successor1 = Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano |office2 = Governor of Sinaloa |president2 = |term_start2 = 1 January 1987 |term_end2 = 31 December 1992 |lieutenant2 = |predecessor2 = Antonio Toledo Corro |successor2 = Renato Vega Alvarado | birth_name = Francisco Labastida Ochoa | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|8|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico | party = Institutional Revolutionary Party | parents = Eduardo Labastida<br /> Gloria Ochoa |spouse = {{marriage|María Teresa Uriarte|1977}} }} '''Francisco Labastida Ochoa''' ({{IPA|es|fɾanˈsisko laβasˈtiða}}; born 14 August 1942) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox.
Labastida was born to Gloria Ochoa de Labastida and Eduardo Labastida Kofahl. His wife, Teresa Uriarte, was director of UNAM's Institute of Aesthetics Research. His great-grandfather fought on the side of Mexican President Benito Juárez in the War of Reform, and his grandfather was Governor of Sinaloa as well as federal deputy.
Labastida served as governor of Sinaloa (1987–1992), defeating Manuel Clouthier of the National Action Party. During and after his tenure as governor, Labastida was accused of protecting Sinaloan drug traffickers and overlooking their activities.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gertz|first1=Bill|title=CIA Links Mexico's Interior Minister To Drug Lords|url=http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n090.a06.html|accessdate=1 September 2014|work=The Washington Times|date=5 February 1998}}</ref>
Labastida was Secretary of Energy during the administration of Miguel de la Madrid. He was also Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior during the administration of Ernesto Zedillo.
After losing the 2000 presidential election, he served as president of the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de México. In the 2006 general election, he was elected to the Senate for the PRI, representing Sinaloa.<ref name="senate">[http://www.senado.gob.mx/legislatura.php?id=74 Labastida profile at the Senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610060753/http://www.senado.gob.mx/legislatura.php?id=74 |date=2007-06-10 }}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Las Razones de la Política'' * ''Planeación para el Desarrollo''
==Awards== *National Order of Merit Grand Officer, of the government of France *Great Cross of Brazil *Medal of the Mexican Supreme Court
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==External links== *{{in lang|es}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027152054/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/4121/semblanza.html |date=October 27, 2009 |title=2000 Campaign site }} {{commons}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|mx-sen}} {{succession box | before =<small>José Adalberto Castro (PRI)<br />Martha Sofía Tamayo (PRI)<br />Joaquín Montaño (PAN)</small> | title=Senator for Sinaloa in the LX and LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress<small><br />(serving with Mario López Valdéz (PRI) <br />and María Serrano Serrano (PAN)</small> | years=2006 - 2012 | after = incumbent}} {{s-ppo}} {{succession box | before =Ernesto Zedillo | title=PRI presidential candidate | years=2000 (lost) | after = Roberto Madrazo}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = Emilio Chuayffet | title = Secretary of the Interior | years = 1998—1999 | after = Diódoro Carrasco}} {{succession box| before=Antonio Toledo Corro| title=Governor of Sinaloa| years=1987—1993| after = Renato Vega Alvarado}} {{s-end}}
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