Mario Anguiano Moreno (born August 15, 1962 in Tinajas,

Colima Colima (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is one of the 31 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and ...

) is a Mexican politician and member of the who served as the

Governor of Colima According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Colima, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican entity is placed in a single individual, called the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of ...

from 2009 to 2015. He also previously served as the municipal president of the state capital of

Colima City Colima () is a city that is the capital of the Colima, Colima state and the seat of Colima municipalities of Mexico, municipality, located in central−western Mexico. It is located near the Colima (volcano), Colima volcano, which divides the smal ...

and represented it in the state legislature.

Biography

Moreno was born on August 15, 1962 in Tinajas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the

University of Colima The University of Colima (in Spanish: ''Universidad de Colima'') is a Mexican public university with several campuses across the state of Colima, bordering the Pacific Ocean. It was created on September 16, 1940 by the President Lázaro Cárdenas ...

. For his dedication and commitment, Anguiano was awarded the ''"Peña Colorada"'' award, given to the student with the highest average grades, for the Class of 1986. Anguiano was invited by the Friedrich Nauman Foundation (Fundación Friedrich Nauman) to represent Mexico in courses in Government and Fiscal Decentralization, held in Germany in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 1990, Anguiano joined 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 ...

, and in 1992, he entered public service as the municipal treasurer of

, serving a two-year term. He was then the chief accountant for the Congress of the State of Colima during its LI and LII Legislatures, from 1995 to 1999; he left to serve as the CEO of Agrotecnología de Colima, S.A. de C.V., an agrotechnology business. In 2000, he began a two-year stint as the municipal treasurer of Manzanillo. Voters elected Anguiano from the third district of Colima, covering the southern portion of the city of Colima, to the LIV Legislature of the State Congress of Colima, which met between 2003 and 2006. Anguiano chaired the Finance and Budget Commission and sat on those for Rural Development and Fisheries; Planning, Tourism and Economic Development; and Human Rights. In 2006, the capital city elected Anguiano again, this time as its municipal president for a three-year term. Colima City thus returned to PRI rule after three years of a PAN mayorship under

Leoncio Morán Sánchez Leoncio Alfonso Morán Sánchez (born 18 July 1966) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Colima, and previously served as the m ...

Governor of Colima

During the 2009 Colima state election, Anguiano won 50.9 percent of the vote for governor, beating Sen.

Martha Sosa Govea Martha Leticia Sosa Govea (born November 25, 1950) is a Mexican politician from Colima affiliated with the National Action Party who has served as municipal president (mayor) of the city of Manzanillo and as senator. In 2006 she was elected t ...

of the National Action Party (PAN). He served a six-year term and was replaced by Interim Governor Ramón Pérez Díaz, as the 2015 elections were annulled and a new governor was not installed until February 2016.

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