Silverio Cavazos

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cavazos and the second or maternal family name is Ceballos.

Silverio Cavazos
Image of Silverio Cavazos, at a conference was a Mexican politician.
Governor of Colima
In office 5 May 2005 – 2 November 2009
Preceded by	Arnoldo Ochoa González
Succeeded by	Mario Anguiano Moreno
Personal details
Born	(1968-12-15)15 December 1968 Tecomán, Colima, Mexico
Died	21 November 2010(2010-11-21) (aged 41) Colima, Colima, Mexico
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Alma mater	University of Colima

Jesús Silverio Cavazos Ceballos (15 December 1968 – 21 November 2010) was a Mexican politician, the Governor of Colima from 2005 to 2009, elected after the death of Gustavo Vázquez Montes. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Cavazos was elected to finish the 2003–2009 constitutional period of Gustavo Vázquez Montes, who won a special election after the ordinary elections were annulled. However, Vázquez Montes died in a plane crash in February 2005, for which it was necessary to call a third election, which was won by Cavazos.

He was killed outside his home by gunmen on 21 November 2010.

See also

• List of politicians killed in the Mexican Drug War

See also

• List of Mexican state governors
• Governor of Colima
• 2003 Colima state election
• 2005 Colima gubernatorial election