Guillermo Héctor Zúñiga Martínez (December 18, 1942 – April 23, 2015) was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for the fifth district of Veracruz.
Zúñiga founded and was the first president of the oratory institute "Belisario Domínguez" in his native Veracruz.
After finishing his law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),[1] he worked as a consulting lawyer in the Directorate of Legal Subjects of the Secretariat of the Interior, as a consulting lawyer in the Directorate of Legal Affairs of the Presidency and as the state director of education, the youngest ever, during the governorship of Rafael Hernández Ochoa.
[2] He was appointed as the Minister of Education and Culture of Veracruz under Governor Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios and again under Patricio Chirinos Calero,[1] and resigned to make what would be a successful run for municipal president of Xalapa, the state capital.
He further continued his political career by serving as a local and federal Congressman.