Marco Antonio Bernal

Marco Antonio Bernal Gutiérrez was born on 30 November 1953 in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. In 1977 he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Universidad Veracruzana and, in 1979, a master's in political science from El Colegio de México. In the 1997 mid-term election he was elected as a national-list senator to the 57th Congress. Bernal sought the PRI's nomination for the governorship of Tamaulipas for the first time in 1998 but lost to Tomás Yarrington. In 2016, he again contended to be the PRI's candidate for governor of Tamaulipas but the nomination went instead to Baltazar Hinojosa; In his later years, Bernal withdrew from politics and dedicated his efforts to the cultivation and export of citrus fruits. ==References==