Angélica García Arrieta

García Arrieta, a native of Tetepango,[2] obtained her degree in accounting in 1981 from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.[3] She worked as an auditor in the 1980s at the general hospital of Pachuca, at the state CONASUPO distributor, and at DICONSA. In 1999, she was elected to a three-year term as a local deputy in the Hidalgo state legislature.[3] In 2005, García Arrieta served as the coordinator of get-out-the-vote efforts for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Tepeapulco, Hidalgo; at the time, both she and López Obrador were members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.[3] After the 2012 election, she became a founding member of MORENA and rose to become the secretary general of the state party in Hidalgo.[3] García Arrieta was elected to the Senate in June 2018, sharing a ticket with Julio Ramón Menchaca Salazar. She was the secretary of the Mining and Regional Development Commission and sat on four other commissions in the Senate.[3]

Her death was announced by Senate leader Martí Batres Guadarrama on 22 December 2018.[1] Friends of the senator stated she died due to complications of diabetes.[4] Alternate senator María Merced González González, an environmental activist and accountant, was sworn in to replace her on January 2, 2019.[5]