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Rebeca Anchondo Fernández
Rebeca Anchondo Fernández (29 January 1926 — 9 January 2012) was a Mexican politician who was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She served two terms as a federal deputy and was distinguished for promoting women's political rights in Mexico during the 1950s. Biography Anchondo Fernández was born in Hacienda Corralitos, a small town in the municipality of Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua. She studied commerce in the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes, where she was notable for her activism in favor of granting women the right to vote. As such, she served as secretary of the municipal committee of the PRI from 1951 to 1958, was elected as the first councilor of the municipality of Nuevo Casas Grandes from 1956 to 1959, served as secretary of the municipality from 1962 to 1971 and as deputy mayor from 1971 to 1974. In 1974, she was elected to the Congress of Chihuahua, where she served until 1977. During this p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Nacional Revolucionario, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution ( es, Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, PRM) and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946. The PNR was founded in 1929 by Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexico's paramount leader at the time and self-proclaimed (Supreme Chief) of the Mexican Revolution. The party was created with the intent of providing a political space in which all the surviving leaders and combatants of the Mexican Revolution could participate and to solve the severe political crisis caused by the assassination of President-elect Álvaro Obregón in 1928. Although Calles himself fell into political disgrace and was exiled in 1936, the party continued ruling Mexico u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
