Silverio Cavazos

{{Short description|Mexican politician (1968–2010)}}

{{family name hatnote|Cavazos |Ceballos|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Silverio Cavazos

|image = Silverio Cavazos.JPG

|caption = Image of Silverio Cavazos, at a conference was a Mexican politician.

|order =

|office = Governor of Colima

|term_start = 5 May 2005

|term_end = 2 November 2009

|lieutenant =

|predecessor= Arnoldo Ochoa González

|successor = Mario Anguiano Moreno

|birth_date = {{birth date|1968|12|15|df=y}}

|birth_place= Tecomán, Colima, Mexico

|death_date = {{death date and age|2010|11|21|1968|12|15|df=y}}

|death_place= Colima, Colima, Mexico

|residence =

|alma_mater = University of Colima

|party = Institutional Revolutionary Party

}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mexican_politician_Silverio_Cavazos_killed_by_gunmen|title=Mexican politician Silverio Cavazos killed by gunmen|publisher=Wikinews|date=23 November 2010|accessdate=23 November 2010}} 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. {{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}

He was killed outside his home by gunmen on 21 November 2010.{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Gunmen-kill-ex-governor-Silverio-Cavazos-Ceballos-in-western-Mexico-state/articleshow/6966985.cms|title=Gunmen kill ex-governor Silverio Cavazos Ceballos in western Mexico state|publisher=Times of India|date=22 November 2010|accessdate=23 November 2010}}