Angélica del Rosario Araujo Lara (, born June 21, 1964) is a Mexican architect and politician, who served as the

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for Yucatán. Previously, she was the

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of Mérida, Yucatán. She is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Early life and career

Angélica Araujo was born on July 21, 1964, in Tixkokob, Yucatán, the daughter of Humberto Araujo Hernández and María del Rosario Lara Báez. Araujo studied architecture at the

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. She began her professional activities in the ''Comisión Ordenadora del Uso del Suelo del Estado de Yucatán'' ( en, Commission of order of the use of land of the State of Yucatán) and then started her own architectural practice.

Political career

In 2007, the governor of Yucatán, Ivonne Ortega appointed Araujo as managing director of the ''Instituto de Vivienda del Estado de Yucatán'' ( en, Housing Institute of the State of Yucatán), position she held until 2009, when she resigned to be nominated candidate to federal deputy by

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, in which she was elected to the period 2009 - 2012 in the LXI Legislature of the Congress of the Union. On December 16, 2010, Yucatán's PRI announced her nomination as candidate of unity for the Municipal president of Mérida, Yucatán; thus, on January 6, 2010, she asked and obtained a leave as member of the

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. On May 21, 2010, Araujo received the document that appointed her as winner in the elections; she took office on July 1. She became the first female member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party to rule the city. With her election, she ended 19 years of government of National Action Party in Mérida. In September 2010, Araujo and the governor Ivonne Ortega, led ''"Tócate"'', a campaign against breast cancer. On January 19, 2012, after 18 months as mayor of Mérida, Araujo left office to register as candidate for a seat in the Senate of the Republic in the following federal election on July 1, 2012. She won election and served as a Senator until her defeat in the

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References

External links

Angélica Araujo Lara en la página oficial de la Cámara de Diputados
(Araujo's Homepage in the Mexican Congress) {{DEFAULTSORT:Araujo Lara, Angelica Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Municipal presidents of Mérida Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Yucatán Living people 1964 births 21st-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican women politicians Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán alumni Anahuac Mayab University alumni Mexican architects Mexican women architects Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) for Yucatán Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)