Antonio Riva Palacio López (1926 – July 14, 2014) was a Mexican lawyer,

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, and member of the

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(PRI). He served as the

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for a full six-year term from 1988 until 1994. He was also appointed as Mexico's Ambassador 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: ' ...

from 1994 to 1998. He was speaker of the senate during the

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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

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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.

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