Imelda Castro Castro

Imelda Castro Castro was born on November 30, 1968, in the town of Agua Caliente de Cebada, in the municipality of Sinaloa, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Since 1991 she has lived in Culiacán. From 1986 to 1991 she studied the bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Administration at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa and from 1994 to 1997 the master's degree in political science at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. From 2008 to 2010 she was a columnist for the weekly Ríodoce. She was a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa from 2001 to 2012. == Political career ==

In 1989 she began her militancy in the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Within this party she was postulated as a candidate for senator of the Republic in the federal elections of 2000. From 2001 to 2004 she was a deputy in the Congress of Sinaloa, where she was president of the Economic Development Commission. She was the state president of the PRD in Sinaloa from 2005 to 2008. From 2011 to 2013 she was director of agribusiness for the Secretary of Economic Development of Governor Mario López Valdez. Senator of the Republic In the 2018 federal elections, she was nominated by the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party as senator in the second formula for the state of Sinaloa. After the elections, she held office in the LXIV Legislature of the Upper House of the Congress of the Union since 1 September 2018. Within the Senate, she is president of the bicameral national security commission and secretary of the commission for the delivery of the Belisario Domínguez Medal. From 2018 to 2019 she was secretary of the social security commission and from 2019 to 2020 she was secretary of the second legislative studies commission. She was vice president of the Senate Board of Directors from August 2010 to August 2021. == References ==