José Agustín Olachea Avilés (September 3, 1890 – April 13, 1974) was a Mexican general who supported

Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revo ...

for president. During the Cárdenas years he served as Governor of the Federal North Territory of Baja California, having previously filled the same post for

Baja California Sur Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the second least populated Mexican state and the ninth-largest state by ...

as a member of the social-democratic

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. This second gubernatorial term came during a period of rising hostility toward the Chinese population in Mexicali. Later, Olachea Avilés acted as Secretary of Defense under

Adolfo López Mateos Adolfo López Mateos (; 26 May 1909 – 22 September 1969) was a Mexican politician and lawyer who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Previously, he served as Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, Secretary of Labor and Social ...

. In 1946, he was re-elected to a second, ten-year term as

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. While still a young captain in the

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, Olachea Avilés had married 16-year-old Ana María Borbón Yañez (1898-1982) in

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, Jalisco, with whom he had children. He was himself, through the paternal line, a second-generation Mexican of

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descent, and a member of an extensive family still scattered across the Baja California Peninsula and in parts of

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