Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá

Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá
Director-General of the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers
In office 4 January 1993 – 1994
Preceded by	Emilio Lozoya
Succeeded by	Manuel Aguilera Gómez
Governor of San Luis Potosí
In office 10 October 1991 – 9 October 1992
Preceded by	Fausto Zapata
Succeeded by	Teófilo Torres Corzo
Director-General of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores
In office 3 January 1991 – 10 October 1991
Preceded by	Emilio Gamboa Patrón
Succeeded by	José Juan de Olloqui y Labastida
Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 November 1990 – 30 November 1990
Preceded by	María Elena Chapa Hernández
Succeeded by	Fernando Córdoba Lobo
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 September 1988 – December 1990
Preceded by	Guillermo Pizzuto Zamanillo
Succeeded by	Antonio Sánchez Morales
Constituency	San Luis Potosí 6
In office 1 September 1964 – 31 August 1967
Preceded by	Guadalupe Rivera Marín
Succeeded by	María Guadalupe Aguirre Soria
Constituency	Federal District 22
Senator
In office 1 September 1982 – 31 August 1988
Preceded by	Rafael Tristán López
Succeeded by	Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
Constituency	San Luis Potosí
Ambassador to Cuba
In office 1980–1982
Ambassador to Chile
In office 1972–1974
Personal details
Born	(1928-03-10)10 March 1928 San Luis Potosí
Died	15 October 2017(2017-10-15) (aged 89) México City
Nationality	Mexican
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Occupation	politician
Profession	engineer

Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá (10 March 1928 – 15 October 2017) was a Mexican politician and diplomat.

A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served for a time as president of the party's Mexico City chapter, Martínez Corbalá was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1964 and served until 1967. He was ambassador to Chile between 1972 and 1974 when he witnessed the 1973 Chilean coup d'état against Salvador Allende. Martínez Corbalá was appointed ambassador to Cuba, from 1980 to 1982. He sat in the Senate for two terms, between 1982 and 1988, when he returned to the Chamber of Deputies. Near the end of 1990, Martínez Corbalá was named the director-general of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores, and took office as governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991. He stepped down in 1992, and later led the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers between 1993 and 1994. In 1992, the government of Chile awarded Martínez Corbalá the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1990.

Outside of politics, Martínez Corbalá was president of the Association of Engineers. He died at the age of 89 on 15 October 2017.