Senator from the Federal District
Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel was born on April 2, 1900 in Villa Nicolás Romero, México. Close personal friend of Lauro Ortega and Jesús Yurén. Parents, Gregorio Velázquez Reyna and Herlinda Sánchez Chávez, were farmers brother Gregorio was Secretary General of the Mexican Federation of Laborers for the State of México and a federal deputy, 1955-1958.
Nephew Luis Velázquez Jaaks, was a federal deputy, 1970-1973.
Primary studies in Villa Nicolás Romero, completed, 1914. No degree.
Senator from the Federal District, 1946-1952. Senator from the Federal District, 1958-1964, member of the Department of the Federal District Committee, the Social Welfare Committee, the First Labor Committee, the First Balloting Committee, the First Instructive Section of the Grand Jury. Representative of labor to Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Worked as a field laborer, in a lumberyard, and on a hacienda. Employed as a milkman. The most powerful labor leader in Mexico.
Founded the Milk Industry Workers Union with Alfonso Sánchez Madariaga. Co-founder of the General Federation of Mexican Workers and Farmers (CGOCM) with Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
Roman Catholic
Began union activities on the El Rosario ranch. Secretary of Interior of the Union of Milk Industry Workers, 1921. Secretary General of the Union of Milk Industry Workers for the Federal District, 1929.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Mexican Labor, 1936-1940. Secretary of Organization and Propaganda, National Executive Committee of the Mexican Federation of Laborers, 1936. Founding member of the General Federation of Mexican Workers and Farmers, 1933.
Secretary General of the Mexican Federation of Labor, 1940-1946. Secretary General of the Mexican Federation of Laborers, 1946-1952, 1952-1958, 1958-1964, 1964-1970, 1970-1976, 1976-1982. Since 1982.
Spouse Nora Quintana Perera.
