Enrique Olivares Santana (8 August 1920 – 18 March 2004) was a Mexican teacher, diplomat, and politician who was governor of Aguascalientes (1962—1968), a member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI) and Secretary of the Interior (SEGOB, 1979—1982).

Personal life and education

Enrique Olivares Santana was born in the

ejido An ''ejido'' (, from Latin ''exitum'') is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in ...

of San Luis de Letras,

Rincón de Romos Rincón de Romos is a municipality and city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. Located at in the northern part of the state, the city serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality Rincón de Romos. As of 2010, the city had ...

, Aguascalientes, on August 22, 1920. His parents, Teodoro Olivares and Julia Santana, were :es:campesinos, or

farmworkers A farmworker, farmhand or agricultural worker is someone employed for labor in agriculture. In labor law, the term "farmworker" is sometimes used more narrowly, applying only to a hired worker involved in agricultural production, including harv ...

. As a young man, Don Teodoro fought for the government during the

Cristero War The Cristero War ( es, Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or es, La Cristiada, label=none, italics=no , was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico from 1 August 1926 to 21 June 1929 in response to the implementa ...

. He was the first General Secretary of the ''Liga de Comunidades Agrarias de Aguascalientes'' (Augascalientes League of Agrarian Communities) in

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, and in 1935 he was elected municipal president of Rincón de Romos. He joined the