title: Luis Enrique Mercado
text: # Luis Enrique Mercado
  
  Luis Enrique Mercado Sánchez (19 January 1952 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican journalist and politician from the National Action Party.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Mercado began his career in journalism in El Universal and founded in 1988 El Economista. He later started Zacatecas radio station XHGPE-FM 96.1 "La Voz".
  
  From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Zacatecas.
  
  Mercado died from COVID-19 on 28 December 2020, at the age of 68.
  
  