Robles consolidated the CTM in the port

He was quite a character of the Old Vallarta

The leader became ruler in four municipal governments

Carlos Everardo Robles Herrera was secretary general of the Federation of the CTM from 1974-1992, and four times alderman of Puerto Vallarta. When he died on Saturday night in Guadalajara he was 77 years old, and apparently he was about to publish a book on his memoirs that he had been writing for several years, shaping and writing the experiences not only in trade unionism and politics, but also Vallarta memories of the last century, where he was one of the creators of this tourist destination.
Also son of a trade unionist, Apolonio Robles Gil, although his father was a leader in the CROM, and Carlos Everardo, would become the leader of the CTM in Puerto Vallarta. He was born on May 14, 1936, in Corona Street in the property marked with the number 33. His mother was Enedina Herrera Herrera.
He had just turned 18 when on May 14, 1955, he obtained his first taxi permit, it was the sixth to be awarded in this city, then Carlos Everardo knew whom was to be fundamental in his union career, Heliodoro Hernández Loza. He was among the founders of the first taxi union, to constitute the section of the National Union of Motor Carriers.
"There were only seven site cars and we needed to be 23 drivers to form the union", he told in an interview 10 years ago to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the CTM in Puerto Vallarta. He recalled that in the worker parade of 1955, the CTM was a contingent that was not even a block away, and then a leader of the strongest labor union, CROM mocked them by saying "the dwarfs have already gotten angry", decades later in one of the last shows that headed the leader of the CTM in 1991, he said "well the dwarfs have already grown and plenty".
He happened to live in the times of unionism when the leaders were continuously reelected", he said when talking about his life in the CTM, where after 20 years as head of the Union of Trasportistas y Similares, he became in 1974 the secretary general of the Federation of the CTM, a position which he held until 1992.
It was also during his administration when he promoted housing actions that led the pattern for the first two housing units in Vallarta: Infonavit CTM and La Aurora.
Away for more than 20 years from the limelight of politics, he lived in Pitillal delegation, where in recent years he was engaged in writing his memoirs. He wrote from his memories of childhood, and of the time in 1963 when he was the interpreter of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor, because he knew English, which he had learned in the first language school that existed in Vallarta.
Or of those stories in his mobile-office, a white van, and that with his portfolio it was the office of the CTM, "when I got to the secretary general of the CTM, it did not have a brick cut in half" would say who during one of his many periods endowed this labor union with its own site, the building that was located on the street of Colombia, laying the foundation stone the maximum chief of the CTM, Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, also in what would be the sports unit of the CTM in Coapinole.
It was in the deed signing of the ten acres in Coapinole in which he would have a confrontation with Heliodoro Hernández Loza, as Robles Herrera wanted to do it on behalf of the unions of taxi drivers, but he was told that he had to do so on behalf of the federation.
"It was the permit holders and the drivers the ones who put the money; finally it was done as was asked by Don Heliodoro; it caused me pain; that was the only time I did not agree with who was always my guide and example".
The changes came
It was when Hernandez Loza's death, months after the death of his father, Apolonio Robles Gil, that amid a labor movement, Robles Herrera leaves the general secretariat in 1992.
"For me the absence of Don Heliodoro marked me, it was time to get away, and without him I knew that nothing could be the same", were the words of Carlos Everardo when he spoke about the ending of that chapter of his life.
"I think that I was able to understand that when don Heliodoro died, unionism would no longer be the same, so I left with the satisfaction of having given a heritage to the union, and the rest as they say is another story", this is how concluded the last interview he gave to this reporter in August 2003, when I was compiling the material for writing his memoirs, unpublished book at his death, which happened Saturday night.
Yesterday afternoon his remains would arrive to Puerto Vallarta, where they would be mourned at Funeraria San Jose, the remains of the CTM member who also passed to history as the only one who was alderman four times: first in the three years of José Vázquez Galván (1968 -70), after in the period of José Baugmarten Joya (1974-1977), later with Rafael González Pimienta (1980-1982) and finally in the administration presided by Rodolfo González Macías (1992-1995).

 

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/02/robles-consolido-a-la-ctm-en-el-puerto"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]