Editing Francisco Labastida (section)

{{short description|Mexican politician}}
{{family name hatnote|Labastida|Ochoa|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Francisco Labastida 
|image = Francisco Labastida Ochoa 2006.png
| office       = [[Senate (Mexico)|Senator]] for [[Sinaloa]]
| term_start   = 1 September 2006
| term_end     = 31 August 2012
| predecessor  = [[José Adalberto Castro Castro]]
| successor    = [[Daniel Amador Gaxiola]]
|office1          = [[Secretariat of the Interior (Mexico)|Secretary of the Interior of Mexico]]
|president1        = [[Ernesto Zedillo]]
|term_start1      = 3 January 1998
|term_end1        = 21 May 1999
|lieutenant1      = 
|predecessor1     = [[Emilio Chuayffet]]
|successor1       = [[Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano]]
|office2          = [[Governor of Sinaloa]]
|president2        = 
|term_start2      = 1 January 1987
|term_end2        = 31 December 1992
|lieutenant2      = 
|predecessor2     = [[Antonio Toledo Corro]]
|successor2       = [[Renato Vega Alvarado]]
| birth_name = Francisco Labastida Ochoa
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|8|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Los Mochis]], [[Sinaloa]], [[Mexico]]
| party = [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]]
| parents = Eduardo Labastida<br /> Gloria Ochoa
|spouse = {{marriage|[[María Teresa Uriarte]]|1977}}  
}}
'''Francisco Labastida Ochoa''' ({{IPA|es|fɾanˈsisko laβasˈtiða}}; born 14 August 1942) is a Mexican [[economics|economist]] and politician affiliated with the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the [[2000 Mexican general election|2000 presidential election]] to [[Vicente Fox]].

Labastida was born to Gloria Ochoa de Labastida and Eduardo Labastida Kofahl. His wife, Teresa Uriarte, was director of [[UNAM]]'s [[Institute of Aesthetics Research]]. His great-grandfather fought on the side of [[President of Mexico|Mexican President]] [[Benito Juárez]] in the [[War of Reform]], and his grandfather was [[Governor of Sinaloa]] as well as federal deputy.

Labastida served as governor of Sinaloa (1987&ndash;1992), defeating [[Manuel Clouthier]] of the [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]]. During and after his tenure as governor, Labastida was accused of protecting Sinaloan drug traffickers and overlooking their activities.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gertz|first1=Bill|title=CIA Links Mexico's Interior Minister To Drug Lords|url=http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n090.a06.html|accessdate=1 September 2014|work=The Washington Times|date=5 February 1998}}</ref>

Labastida was [[Secretary of Energy (Mexico)|Secretary of Energy]] during the administration of [[Miguel de la Madrid]]. He was also [[Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food|Secretary of Agriculture]] and [[Secretariat of the Interior (Mexico)|Secretary of the Interior]] during the administration of [[Ernesto Zedillo]].

After losing the 2000 presidential election, he served as president of the [[Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de México]].  In the [[2006 Mexican general election|2006 general election]], he was elected to the [[Senate of Mexico|Senate]] for the PRI, representing Sinaloa.<ref name="senate">[http://www.senado.gob.mx/legislatura.php?id=74 Labastida profile at the Senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610060753/http://www.senado.gob.mx/legislatura.php?id=74 |date=2007-06-10 }}</ref>