Consulate General of Mexico
5350 Leetsdale Drive
Suite 100
Denver, CO 80246
Tel: 303.331.1110 x. 101
Fax: 303.331.0169
Email: infodenver@sre.gob.mx
Website: consulmex2.sre.gob.mx/denver/
Pavel Melendez Cruz was born on October 12th, 1979 in Ixtepec City, state of Oaxaca, Mexico. He graduated from the Bachelor’s degree on Political Science and Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2002. He is holds a diploma in the course “Mexican state reform” by the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP, 2000), and a certification on “Transparency and Civic Participation in Government” by the US Department of State. He studied English in the International Language Schools EFILS in Toronto, Canada (2007), and Italian at UNAM’s Foreign Language Centre (2004). He studied the United Nations seminary of the Friedrich Ebert foundation in the United Nations headquarters in 2010. From 2008 to 2010 he was Vice-president of a youth international organization close to the left progressive movement, where he concurred with PM Jacinda Arden of New Zealand, who was serving as President. From 2018-2021 he was elected as a congressman in the state of Oaxaca, where he was appointed as Vice-president of the Congress, President of the Migration and International Affairs Committee, and President of the Special Committee on Reconstruction after the 2017 earthquake in Mexico.