On January 10, 1994, after the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari named Manuel Camacho Solís “comisionado para la Paz y Reconciliación en Chiapas” (commissioner for peace and reconciliation in Chiapas).
The weekly ZETA describes an earlier role of Camacho’s as a “posición desde la cual sirvió de operador político al Presidente Salinas” (position from which he served as political operator to President Salinas).