Israel Nogueda Otero (January 16, 1935 – June 15, 2012) was a Mexican

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and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Nogueda served as the Municipal President of

Acapulco municipality Acapulco de Juárez is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in southwestern Mexico, along Acapulco Bay on the Pacific coast. The municipal seat lies at Acapulco. Forty percent of the municipality is mountainous terrain; another forty perce ...

from 1969 to 1971 and the

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from 1971 until 1975. Nogueda Otero was born in Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero,

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, on January 16, 1935. He earned a degree in

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from the

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. In April 1971, Nogueda became the Governor of Guerrero following the death of his predecessor,

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, who died in office. During Nogueda's tenure, the state government faced a guerrilla

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led by

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and

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, who operated in Guerrero. Noting the worsening crisis in Guerrero, the federal

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removed Governor Israel Nogueda Otero from office in January 1975. Congress appointed a new interim governor, Xavier Olea Muñoz, who was sworn into office on January 31, 1975, as Nogueda's successor. He later served on an internal state commissioner for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Nogueda Otero died of a heart attack shortly after 11 p.m. on June 15, 2012, at his home in Mexico City at the age of 77. He was buried in Atoyac de Álvarez.

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