Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (born 4 December 1939) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

[3] He ran again for Congress in the 1988 general election and served another three-year term (1988–1991) representing Guerrero's 10th district.

His opponent, Félix Salgado Macedonio [es] of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), alleged fraud and his supporters occupied the esplanade in front of the government palace in Chilpancingo until the following July.

[2][5] On 28 June 1995, in the coastal municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, 17 campesinos were killed by Guerrero state police in the Aguas Blancas massacre.

[6][7] On 12 March 1996, Figueroa Alcocer presented the Congress of Guerrero with his resignation from the governorship "to facilitate the investigation of the incident" by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.