Jorge de la Vega Dominguez, Federal Deputy from the State of Chiapas, District 3. Organized the first Congess of Economic Students of Latin America, 1953; President of the College of Economists of Mexico, 1961-1963.
Background
De la Vega Dominguez, Jorge was born on March 14, 1931 in Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico. Attended the National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, with Julio Faesler, Director of the Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade, 1970-1976, and Carlos Torres Manzo. Nephew of Belisario Dominguez, the Mexican senator who publicly accused General Huerta of the murder of Francisco Madero.
First helped in public career by his professor and mentor, Gilberto Loyo. Son of Jaime de la Vega Culebro and Lesvia Dominguez Mandujano.
Education
Primary studies at the public school Belisario Domínguez, Comitán, Chiapas, 1940-1945. Secondary education in Comitán, 1946-1948. Preparatory at the National Preparatory School, 1949-1950.
Degree in economics with honorable mention from the National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1958, with his thesis on “Petroleum Industry in Mexico: Some Aspects of its Development and Financial Problems,” received an honorable mention. Professor of third year engineering at the Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 1957-1958. Professor of the Theory of Public Finance at the National Polytechnic School, 1960-1965.
Director of the Graduate School of Economics, National Polytechnic School, 1963-1964. President of his generation at the National Preparatory School and of the 1955 Generation of the National School of Economics.
Career
A. March 14, 1931. b. Comitán, Chiapas, c. Primary studies at the public school Belisario Domínguez, Comitán, Chiapas, 1940-1945. Secondary education in Comitán, 1946-1948.
Preparatory at the National Preparatory School, 1949-1950. Degree in economics with honorable mention from the National School of Economics, National Autonomous University, 1958, with his thesis on “Petroleum Industry in Mexico: Some Aspects of its Development and Financial Problems,” received an honorable mention. Professor of third year engineering at the Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 1957-1958.
Professor of the Theory of Public Finance at the National Polytechnic School, 1960-1965. Director of the Graduate School of Economics, National Polytechnic School, 1963-1964. President of his generation at the National Preparatory School and of the 1955 Generation of the National School of Economics, d.
Federal Deputy from the State of Chiapas, District 3, 1964-1967, member of the Committee on National Properties and Resources and the Committee on Budgets and Accounts. Member of the Interparliamentary Delegation to the United States. Governor of Chiapas, 1976-1977.
Director of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1968-1970. Adviser to the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party during the national platform meeting, 1963. President of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, since 1987.
Economist for the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce, 1951-1955. Gerente General of the Tampico Branch of the Small Business Bank, 1956-1958. Subdirector of Diesel Nacional, S.A., 1959-1961.
Subdirector of the Small Business Bank, 1962. Head of the Department of Public Expenditures, Secretariat of the Presidency, 1963-1964. Subdirector in charge of sales, National Company of Public Commodities, 1965-1968.
Director General of National Company of Public Commodities, 1971-1976. Secretary of Commerce, 1977-1982. Representative of President Diaz Ordaz to student leaders of the 1968 strike.
Precandidate for senator from Chiapas, 1981.
Religion
Roman Catholic
Membership
Organized the first Congess of Economic Students of Latin America, 1953. President of the College of Economists of Mexico, 1961-1963.