Fernando Suarez del Solar

Fernando Suárez del Solar (born December 8, 1955) is a Mexican-American peace activist.

He grew up in Mexico City and the city of Puebla where he attended several schools including the Universidad Militar Latino Americana; he eventually studied law at the UNAM.

His son, then a 20 year old U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal, Jesús Alberto Suárez del Solar Navarro, died in Iraq on March 27, 2003, the first soldier of Mexican origin and the fifth Hispanic soldier killed in the invasion of Iraq.

He traveled to Iraq in December 2003, visiting the place where his son died after stepping on a cluster bomb that had been dropped by U.S. forces.

In 2020, he joined a group of Gold Star families with an Open Letter to protest Mr. Trump's mistreatment in the media of Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan.