Sergio Aguayo

Sergio Aguayo Quezada (born September 10, 1947 in La Rivera, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican academic and human rights activist.

He is a columnist for Reforma and other Mexican newspapers, and participates as an analyst on the television show Primer Plano, a political analysis show broadcast on the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's XEIPN (Channel 11), for which he received the José Pagés Llergo Journalism Prize.

Until 2015, he was also commentator at the Mesa Política (Political Table) of the radio broadcasting of Noticias MVS with Carmen Aristegui.

Sergio Aguayo received his BA in International Relations at El Colegio de México.

From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (Mexican Academy of Human Rights), and from 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the National Coordination of Alianza Cívica.