Agustín Olachea

José Agustín Olachea Avilés (September 3, 1890, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur – April 13, 1974, La Paz, Baja California Sur) was a Mexican general[1] who supported Lázaro Cárdenas for president.[2] During the Cárdenas years he served as Governor of the Federal North Territory of Baja California, having previously filled the same post for Baja California Sur as a member of the social-democratic Institutional Revolutionary Party. This second gubernatorial term came during a period of rising hostility toward the Chinese population in Mexicali.[3] Later, Olachea Avilés acted as Secretary of Defense under Adolfo López Mateos.[4]

Agustín Olachea
General Olachea
Born(1890-09-03)September 3, 1890
Todos Santos, Baja California Sur
DiedApril 13, 1974(1974-04-13) (aged 83)
La Paz, Baja California Sur
AllegianceMexico
Mexican Armed Forces
RankGeneral
Spouse(s)Ana María Borbón Yañez

In 1946, he was re-elected to a second, ten-year term as Governor of Baja California Sur.

While still a young captain in the Mexican Armed Forces, Olachea Avilés had married 16-year-old Ana María Borbón Yañez (1898-1982) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, with whom he had children.

He was himself, through the paternal line, a second-generation Mexican of Basque descent, and a member of an extensive family still scattered across the Baja California Peninsula and in parts of Southern California.

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References
  1. Thomas G. Rath (2013). Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960. UNC Press Books. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8078-3928-7.
  2. Roderic Ai Camp (6 December 2013). Political Recruitment across Two Centuries: Mexico, 1884-1991. University of Texas Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-292-73368-8.
  3. John Dwyer (1 January 2009). The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke University Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-8223-8894-4.
  4. Roderic Ai Camp (1992). Generals in the Palacio: The Military in Modern Mexico. Oxford University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-19-507300-3.


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