Background
Garzón Santibáñez, Alfonso was born on August 4, 1920 in Ejido el Salto, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Son of Valentin Garzón Tisnado, peasant, and María Santibañez Lizáraga.
Garzón Santibáñez, Alfonso was born on August 4, 1920 in Ejido el Salto, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Son of Valentin Garzón Tisnado, peasant, and María Santibañez Lizáraga.
Early education unknown. No degree.
Alternate Federal Deputy from the State of Baja California, District 1, 1961-1964. Federal Deputy from the State of Baja California, District 3, 1970-1973, member of the Agricultural Committee, the Waters and Irrigation Committee and the First Balloting Committee. Federal Deputy from the State of Baja California, District 3, 1976-1979, member of the Ejido and Communal Organization Section of the Agrarian Affairs Committee, member of the Agricultural Committee and the Committee for the Development of Marine Resources.
Senator from Baja California, 1982-1988. Joined the National Revolutionary Party, 1938. Agrarian Subsecretary of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1980-1985.
Peasant in youth; Ran for mayor of Mexicali as a militant of the Alliance of Free Voters of Baja California, 1962. Left Institutional Revolutionary Party from 1960 to 1964. Split with Ramón Danzos Palomino October 2, 1964, to support Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Roman Catholic
Began activities in the agrarian union movement, 1936. Secretary, Ejido Comisariat, El Salto Ejido, 1939. President, El Salto Ejido, 1940-1942.
Representative of Agrarian Action, Ensenada, Baja California, 1943. Ejido Commissioner, Eréndina, Baja California, 1945-1948. Secretary General of the Agrarian Leagues, Baja California, 1956-1962.
Co-founder of the CCI with Humberto Serrano and Ramón Danzos Palomino, 1960. Secretary General of the Independent Peasant Federation (CCI), since 1963.
Spouse Maria Guadalupe Martínez Cruz.