Fernando Zárate Salgado

Fernando Zárate Salgado (born 16 August 1979) is a Mexican politician. As of 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District.^[1]

He served as Secretary of the International and Foreign Affairs Committee, and member of the Constitucional Reforms and Justice Committee.^[2]

As President of the Special Gaming Committee, he denounced corruption cases regarding licenses of casinos in Mexico by the cabinet of Felipe Claderon Hinojosa (President of Mexico 2006-2012). He filed the new legislative piece of gaming and casinos, reforming the existing one of 1948, approved by the lower House.^[3][4]

He was the first legislator to file and succeed in the approval of imposing taxes to soft dirnks, sugar beverages, and junk food. Mexico is the first country in the world to approve such a legislative measure, which made an example to the rest of LatinAmerica, and started to file legislative bills to prevent obesity.^[5][6]

In March 2015, after denouncing corruption ^[7][8] cases within the PRD,^[9][10][11] and foreseeing that the left wing party was going to lose the intermediate election, he resigned to the political party. He was the target of a political and media attack in May 2015,^[12] while seeking a local representative position within PRI/PVEM (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) launched by his former political party, while defending property and freedom of expression rights of an indigenous community.

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