Alfonso Durazo
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Alfonso Durazo Montaño is a Mexican politician and a former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox.
Durazo holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a bachelor's degree in law from the Metropolitan Autonomous University. From 1992 to 1993 he served as private secretary of the Secretary of Social Development Luis Donaldo Colosio; when Colosio became the PRI candidate to the presidency of Mexico Durazo continued to serve as Colosio's private secretary.
On May, 2000 he resigned to the PRI and joined the presidential campaign of Vicente Fox who later designated him as his private secretary and later as the presidential spokesman. Durazo left that position on June, 2004 and broke relations with President Fox.
On March, 2006 Durazo announced that he will be joining Andrés Manuel López Obrador's presidential campaign.