Jorge Aguilera

A pole vault specialist, Jorge Aguilera represented Mexico in this event at the 1951 Pan American Games, where he placed fifth. He was then selected to compete at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, but did not start his event. At the time, he was a student at the National School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1955.

Aguilera joined Mexico’s dominant political party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1948 and, upon graduation, served for two years as the head of the Department of Exchanges, Small Business Bank, in Mexico City. He soon turned his political eye towards his home state of Tamaulipas and was its treasurer general from 1958 through 1963. During his career, he held numerous political positions and served as state Secretariat of Commerce (1978-1982), Programming and Budget (1983-1985), and Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources (1988-1990). In 2004, he was a precandidate for Governor.