Amalia García

Amalia García
Amalia García
; Governor of Zacatecas
	In office; September 12, 2004 – September 11, 2010
Preceded by	Ricardo Monreal
Succeeded by	Miguel Alonso Reyes
Personal details
Born	Amalia Dolores García Medina; October 6, 1951; Zacatecas, Zacatecas
Nationality	MEX
Political party	Mexican Communist Party (1968–1981); Unified Socialist Party (1981–1987); Socialist Mexican Party (1987–1989); Party of the Democratic Revolution (1989–present)
Alma mater	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Sociologist

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

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

"Amalia García renuncia al PRD | Animal Político". www.animalpolitico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2018.
Amalia Garcia – Governor of the state of Zacatecas
Tiempo, Casa Editorial El. "MEXICO. PRIMERA GOBERNADORA EN ZACATECAS:". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2018.
"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.

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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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[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.

[cp-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.