Antonio Riva Palacio López (1926 – July 14, 2014) was a Mexican
lawyer
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,
politician
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, and member of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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(PRI). He served as the
Governor of Morelos
The governor of Morelos, which was created with the state of Mexico in 1869. (Morelos was a Federal Territory from June 17, 1914, to February 5, 1917.)
See also
* List of Mexican state governors
* List of people from Morelos, Mexico
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for a full six-year term from 1988 until 1994. He was also appointed as Mexico's
Ambassador
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to
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
from 1994 to 1998.
He was speaker of the senate during the
LIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
The LIII Legislature of the Congress of the Union (53rd Mexican Congress) was made up of senators and deputies members of their respective chambers. They began duties on 1 September 1985 and ended on 31 August 1988.
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.
After leaving the governor's office, Riva Palacio was accused of leaving the state deep in debt while personally becoming wealthy. He was alleged to have committed hundreds of cases of abuse of power, nepotism, and other crimes, including homicide. On August 5, 1993, he and his attorney general, Tomás Flores Allende, were nearly lynched in
Jonacatepec
Jonacatepec de Leondro Valle is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The municipality reported 15,690 inhabitants in the year 2015 census.
The name ''Jo ...
after the police attacked several of the townspeople. The citizens were repressed by ''Grupo Scorpion'' under the command of Colonel Jorge Encinas Gutiérrz. None of the accusations went to trial.
See also
*
List of people from Morelos, Mexico
The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in the Mexican state of Morelos:
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References
2014 deaths
Governors of Morelos
Ambassadors of Mexico to Ecuador
Presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
20th-century Mexican lawyers
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
People from Morelos
Politicians from Morelos
People from Cuernavaca
1926 births
20th-century Mexican politicians
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