Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto

Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto (born January 30, 1951) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI).

Núñez Soto received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and specialized in public administration, commerce and finance at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale of Italy and at the École nationale d'administration in France.

Later on he joined the Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade (in Spanish: Instituto Mexicano de Comercio Exterior) and the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP).

By mid-1993 Núñez Soto had moved to the state of Hidalgo to join the cabinet of governor Jesús Murillo Karam as secretary of industry and commerce.

In 1995 he took over the state Secretariat of the Interior and two years later he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing Hidalgo's sixth district (the city of Pachuca and surrounding areas).