Background
Velasco is the grandson of the former Governor of Chiapas, Manuel Velasco Suárez.
Velasco is the grandson of the former Governor of Chiapas, Manuel Velasco Suárez.
He has served on the three legislative levels of Mexico as Local Deputy, Federal Deputy and Senator. Velasco entered into politics in 1999. Two years later, in 2001, he became Local Deputy for the Congress of Chiapas, being the youngest legislator on a local congress.
Two years later, he was elected as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chiapas.
Then aged 23, he was the youngest person to serve as Congressman. In 2006, he left his seat on the Chamber in order to compete as Senator, winning the seat in the July elections.
At the age of 26, Velasco assumed the role as the youngest Senator in Mexico"s history. He has been criticized by the independent media for allegedly being a project similar to Enrique Peña Nieto, due the posters with his face and name that have been published by the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico City.
Since he is the governor of Chiapas and has nothing to do with Mexico City, some claim that the Institutional Revolutionary Party is trying to sell his image for the 2018 presidential elections.
People accused them of being together solely to promote Velasco"s career, because novelas are extremely popular in Mexico.