Amalia García

Amalia Dolores García Medina (born October 6, 1951) is a Mexican politician and a former governor of Zacatecas.

Amalia García

Governor of Zacatecas
In office
September 12, 2004  September 11, 2010
Preceded byRicardo Monreal
Succeeded byMiguel Alonso Reyes
Personal details
Born
Amalia Dolores García Medina

(1951-10-06) October 6, 1951
Zacatecas, Zacatecas
NationalityMEX
Political partyMexican Communist Party (1968–1981)
Unified Socialist Party (1981–1987)
Socialist Mexican Party (1987–1989)
Party of the Democratic Revolution (1989–present)
Alma materUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSociologist

García was born into a political family. When she was five, her father Francisco Garcia Estrada was elected governor of their home state of Zacatecas, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Rather than following in his footsteps, García instead enrolled in the outlawed Mexican Communist Party (PCM) after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and the Tlatelolco massacre. Her political stance became more moderate over time, and she played a key role in turning the PCM into a "neo-Communist" party. She followed the PCM into the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) in 1981. After briefly being a member of the Socialist Mexican Party, she became a founding member of the Party 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.

On June 24, 2018 she renounced to PRD, after 29 years of advocacy, arguing "the great debate of ideas that constituted one of its strengths, has been totally replaced by agreements for the distribution of quotas ".[1]

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 on September 12, 2004.[2][3] She had been endorsed by a former Governor of Zacatecas, José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona, who renounced his membership in PRI to support Garcia.[4]

She was the fifth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state. Earlier women governors were Griselda Álvarez (Colima, 1979–1985), Beatriz Paredes (Tlaxcala, 1987–1992), Dulce María Sauri (Yucatán, 1991–1994), Rosario Robles Berlanga (Distrito Federal, 1999–2000).

References

  1. "Amalia García renuncia al PRD | Animal Político". www.animalpolitico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  2. Amalia Garcia – Governor of the state of Zacatecas
  3. Tiempo, Casa Editorial El. "MEXICO. PRIMERA GOBERNADORA EN ZACATECAS:". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  4. "Fallece ex gobernador zacatecano José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona". Ciudad y Poder. March 13, 2013. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
Preceded by
Ricardo Monreal Ávila
Governor of Zacatecas
2004–2010
Succeeded by
Miguel Alonso Reyes
Preceded by
Pablo Gómez Álvarez
President of the Party of the Democratic Revolution
2000–2002
Succeeded by
Rosario Robles Berlanga
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