José Antonio Cruz Álvarez Lima (born May 3, 1942)[1] is a Mexican politician and senator representing the state of Tlaxcala in the 64th Congress.
[2] A graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) after a brief stint at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education,[2] he taught at several universities, including the Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, and the UNAM; he was the president of the National Political Science College, a professional organization, from 1979 to 1980.
[3]: 79 He then served three years in the LII Legislature of the Mexican Congress (1982–1985), representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and a two-year term as ambassador to Colombia.
[1] On January 23, 2019, López Obrador nominated Álvarez Lima to serve as the head of Canal Once,[9] marking his return to public media after a 28 years absence.
[11] This prompted Álvarez Lima to announce that he would resign from Canal Once and return to the Senate in the second half of November, after a new director for the television channel was appointed.