Angélica García Arrieta (27 August 1958 – 22 December 2018) was a Mexican public accountant and politician,

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in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress, and founder of the National Regeneration Movement political party.

Life

García Arrieta, a native of

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, obtained her degree in accounting in 1981 from the

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo The Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (''Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo'' or UAEH) is a public university located in Pachuca, the capital of the State of Hidalgo in east-central Mexico, with campuses statewide. The univers ...

. She worked as an auditor in the 1980s at the general hospital of

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, 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. In 2005, García Arrieta served as the coordinator of get-out-the-vote efforts for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in

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; at the time, both she and López Obrador were members of the

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. After the 2012 election, she became a founding member of MORENA and rose to become the secretary general of the state party in Hidalgo. 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. Her death was announced by Senate leader Martí Batres Guadarrama on 22 December 2018. Friends of the senator stated she died due to complications of diabetes. Alternate senator

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, an environmental activist and accountant, was sworn in to replace her on January 2, 2019.

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1958 births 2018 deaths Mexican accountants Women accountants Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Morena (political party) politicians {{Mexico-politician-Morena-stub