Héctor Armando Cabada Alvídrez

He previously had anchored newscasts on XHIJ Canal 44, a television station based in Ciudad Juárez.

[2] Cabada de la O signed XHIJ on the air in 1980, and in 1988, Armando began his career at XHIJ, later becoming its news director[3] and anchoring its late evening news.

On January 27, 2016, Cabada announced on his newscast that he would leave Canal 44 after more than 27 years and launch an independent candidacy for the municipal presidency of Ciudad Juárez.

[5] On election day, Cabada earned more than 48 percent of the vote, beating the closest candidate from the PRI, Héctor Agustín Murguía Lardizábal, by 23 percentage points.

[7] Murguía was seeking a third term as municipal president after serving in the position from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2013.