- Amalia García
Amalia Dolores García Medina (born
October 6 1951 ) is a Mexican politician and the current governor ofZacatecas . She is currently one of the only two women state governors in Mexico (the other beingIvonne Ortega Pacheco ofYucatan ).Political career
García was born into a political family. When she was five, her father
Francisco García Estrada was electedgovernor of their home state ofZacatecas , representing theInstitutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Rather than following in his footsteps, García instead enrolled in the outlawedMexican Communist Party (PCM) after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and theTlatelolco massacre . Her political stance became more moderate over time and she left the PCM for theUnified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM). From there she went on to be a founding member of theParty of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) when it was created in 1989.In the 1990s she served as both a deputy and a senator for the PRD. In 1996 she ran (unsuccessfully) for party president; she ran again, and won, in 2000.
Governor of Zacatecas
In 2003 she was selected as the PRD's candidate in the 2004 Zacatecas gubernatorial election. In the election of
July 4 2004 she won a convincing victory and was sworn in as the first female governor of Zacatecas onSeptember 12 2004 .She is the fourth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state. Earlier women governors were
Griselda Álvarez (Colima, 1979-1985),Beatriz Paredes (Tlaxcala, 1987 - 1992) andDulce María Sauri (Yucatán , 1991-1994).External links
*es icon [http://www.zacatecas.gob.mx/Gobernadora.htm Website as governor]
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