Ivonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco (born November 26, 1972) is a Mexican politician from Yucatán and a current member of the Chamber of Deputies.
[1] Starting her political career in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), she was elected as the mayor of her birthplace, Dzemul, Yucatán, in 1998.
In 2006 she expressed her intention to be candidate of her party for governor of Yucatán in the 2007 elections and asked permission to leave her duties as a senator.
Her nomination was a surprise, because she had occupied the post of senator for only two months (with her alternate, Renán Cleominio Zoreda Novelo, sworn in on October 30), and faced candidates with more political history than her.
On December 4, 2006, the PRI's National Executive Committee was presented the results of the Consulta Mitofsky poll conducted between Ortega and five other candidates in the PRI party of Yucatán: Carlos Sobrino Sierra, Erick Rubio Barthell, Dulce María Sauri, Orlando Paredes Lara and Rubén Calderón Cecilio.
[6] In February 2015 Ortega Pacheco was accused by former governor of Yucatán Patricio Patrón Laviada of deviating funds for the construction of a hospital in Tekax in the amount of at least 112 million pesos.
[10] In 2016 the governor of Yucatán Rolando Zapata Bello made an investment of 80 million pesos in order to finish the hospital, which was planned to start operations at the end of 2016.