Santiago Oñate Laborde
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Santiago Oñate Laborde is a Mexico lawyer and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Oñate Laborde has served in several positions inside the PRI and in the Mexican government. In 1991 he served as the Mexican Ambassador to the Organization of American States and as the head of the Environmental Attorney's Office (Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Medio Ambiente or PROFEPA). In 1995 he was designated President of the PRI. He served for President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as the head of the Presidency's Office (Oficina de la Presidencia). President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León appointed him as Secretary of Labor. Oñate Laborde has also served as Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to The Netherlands.
He pursued studies at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences and at the University of Wisconsin.