Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García (born September 14, 1945 in

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) is a

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politician affiliated with the

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(PRI). He is a former federal Congressman (1985–1989), mayor of

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(1989–1991) and former governor of

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(1991 – 1996). He graduated from the

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in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in economics and received master's degrees in the same discipline at ''

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'' and at the

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. He worked several years at the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit and got elected to the

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in 1988. After briefly chairing the state branch of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Nuevo León (1988) he was elected mayor of Monterrey. He left the post to run for governor of the state and after a clear victory over his closest opponent he took office in 1991. As governor, Rizzo built the second line of

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and the state's largest water reservoir. He resigned from the post on April 18, 1996 after several political scandals involving some of his closest cabinet members. After his resignation, Rizzo worked as visitor at

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and

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. He also researched municipal decentralization for the government of

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