Alfonso García Robles

Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat who championed nuclear disarmament and was the driving force behind the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which made Latin America and the Caribbean a nuclear-weapon-free zone. For that work he shared the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Sweden’s Alva Myrdal.

He is one of Mexico’s three Nobel laureates; don’t confuse him with Octavio Paz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, or Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995.