Ángel Aguirre Rivero

Ángel Aguirre Rivero
Rivero in 2009
Governor of Guerrero
In office 1 April 2011 – 23 October 2014
Preceded by	Zeferino Torreblanca
Succeeded by	Rogelio Ortega Martinez
Personal details
Born	21 April 1956 Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico
Political party	PRI (1984–2010) PRD (2010–present)
Spouse(s)	Laura del Rocío Herrera
Profession	Economist

Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero (born 21 April 1956) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the PRD, formerly to the PRI, who served as Governor of Guerrero from 2011 until he stepped down October 23, 2014.^[1] He has been a member of both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.^[2] He served as interim Governor of Guerrero between 1996 and 1999. He served a later term as Governor of Guerrero between 2011-2014.

Political career

Angel Aguirre Rivero took a degree in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he also served as professor in the same faculty. In 1991, he was postulated and elected as Deputy for the Sixth Federal Electoral District of Guerrero to the LV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 1991 to 1994, from 1993 to 1996 was also President of the PRI in the State of Guerrero.

On 12 March 1996, the then governor of Guerrero, Rubén Figueroa Alcocer, requested to leave his post due to the Aguas Blancas massacre, where peasants were murdered by agents of the state police at the ford of Aguas Blancas, municipality of Coyuca de Benitez, the same day the Congress of Guerrero Governor appointed him as a substitute, finishing the constitutional period until 31 March 1999.

In 2003, he was elected again as Deputy for the LIX Legislature representing Guerrero. In 2006 he was nominated as a candidate for Senator for the PRI in the first formula of the candidatures, being second in the election and therefore occupying the seat of "First minority".^[3]

On 25 August 2010, he announced that he leaves his membership in the PRI and to become the candidate for governor of Guerrero by the PRD,^[4] subsequently winning the January 30, 2011 elections.^[5] and taking office on 1 April.

References

1. Wilkinson, Tracy (23 October 2014). "Mexico governor steps down over missing students". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
2. "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
3. "Ángel Aguirre Rivero". Retrieved 7 December 2013.
4. "Ángel Aguirre, precandidato del DIA en Guerrero". El Universal. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
5. "Programa de resulatdos electorales". Retrieved 7 December 2013.

External links

• Official website of the Governature of Guerrero