Arsenio Farell

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Arsenio Farell Cubillas (June 30, 1921 – May 15, 2005) was a controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Secretary of Labor in the cabinets of Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas and headed the Federal Comptroller's Secretariat in the cabinet of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.

Farell Cubillas was born in Mexico City to Enrique Farell Solá, a Spanish immigrant, and Consuelo Cubillas Gutiérrez. He received a bachelor, master and doctorate's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also taught several courses for almost 19 years (1954 – 1973) before heading the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the López Portillo administration.

During his lifetime, Farell was accused by several leftist activists of whistleblowing at the midst of the Mexican dirty war, in which several university dissidents were massacred in Tlatelolco.

He was married to Rosa María Campa Padilla.

Source: Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.