Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios Politician
Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios (October 26, 1927 – October 30, 2000) was a prominent and controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was in charge of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad secret police at the midst of the dirty war (1964 – 1970), served as governor of Veracruz (1986 – 1988) and as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.Gutiérrez Barrios was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. His parents were Fernando Gutiérrez Ferrer and Ana María Barrios. He graduated from the Colegio Militar military academy in 1947 and joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1950.Source: Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992
