Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (April 4, 1940 – September 30, 2021
) was a Mexican politician, 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 ...

, who was the Governor of

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

from 1983 to 1989. Xicoténcatl Leyva was related to

Miguel Alemán Valdés Miguel Alemán Valdés (; 29 September 1900 – 14 May 1983) was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, the first civilian president after a string of revolutionary generals. His administr ...

who was the

President of Mexico The president of Mexico ( es, link=no, Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States ( es, link=no, Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Co ...

from 1946 to 1952. He held the positions of Assistant Secretary of

Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit The Secretariat of the Treasury and Public Credit ( es, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, SHCP) is the finance ministry of Mexico. The Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the department, and is a member of the federal executive ...

under

Antonio Ortiz Mena Antonio Ortiz Mena (16 April 1907 – 12 March 2007) was a Mexican economist who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (1971–1988) and as Mexico's Secretary of Finance during the administrations of Adolfo López M ...

, then Administrative Assistant Director of the National Institute of Youth from 1971. Then he became a delegate from the same organization to

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and < ...

, where he lived thereafter; there he became Undersecretary of

's State Committee of the PRI and in 1978 was elected Mayor of Tijuana. In 1983 he was nominated and elected Governor of Baja California. His government was controversial because he was accused of promoting accelerated growth without order, that made areas that were border towns into big cities without planning. In the 1988 election he was unable to avoid having to recognize the landslide victory of

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano Cuauhtémoc (, ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler (''tlatoani'') of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle" ...

in the state as a candidate for the presidency against

Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari CYC DMN (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he wor ...

, the PRI candidate. This may have cost him politically and make him take a leave as governor on January 5, 1989, and thereafter remain retired from politics.

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Biography as Governor of Baja California
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leyva Mortera, Xicoténcatl 1940 births 2021 deaths Governors of Baja California Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Politicians from Tijuana Municipal presidents of Tijuana Deaths from lung cancer 20th-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Veracruz People from Xalapa