Carlos Lomelí Bolaños

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carlos Lomelí Bolaños (born August 5, 1959) is a Mexican politician with Morena. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and studied medicine at the Universidad de Guadalajara, becoming an obstetrician-gynecologist. He also taught at a local preparatory school.

In 1999 he became director of Lomedic, a company that supplied medicines to IMSS clinics in Jalisco. In 2010 it won a contract worth 600 million pesos, but there were complaints about supply problems and other irregularities, and the state health department changed providers. Lomedic lost the contract to Dimesa and challenged the decision in court. The U.S. Treasury once listed Lomedic as linked to drug trafficking, but he was removed in 2012; a 2017 report linked him to money laundering through a company.

In 2011 he founded Laboratorios SOLFRAN, a maker of generic medicines near Guadalajara. With Abastecedora de Insumos para la Salud, owned by a close ally, these firms received 307 federal contracts totaling 883.8 million pesos from 2013 to 2017.

Politically, Lomelí tried to become governor with PRD in 2006 but did not win; he ran for senator in 2012 and lost. After 2012 he joined Movimiento Ciudadano and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2015. In Congress he served on several commissions. In March 2017 he joined Morena and became the party’s coordinator in Jalisco. In February 2018 he left the Chamber to run for governor of Jalisco with the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, finishing second with about 24% of the vote. In 2024 he was elected senator for Jalisco, as the lead candidate for the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition.