Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero (born 21 April 1956) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (, , PRD) is a state-level social democracy, social democratic political party in Mexico (previously national, until 2024). The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 198 ...

(PRD) and formerly with the

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(PRI). He served as

governor of Guerrero List of governors of Guerrero since it became a Federated state, state of Mexico in 1917. References See also

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from 2011 until he stepped down on 23 October 2014. He has been a member of both the

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and the

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. He served as interim governor of Guerrero between 1996 and 1999. He served a later term as governor of Guerrero between 2011 and 2014. In October 2014 he resigned after protests related to the Iguala mass kidnapping.

Political career

Ángel Aguirre Rivero took a degree in economics from the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM), where he also served as professor in the same faculty. In 1991, he was elected to the

for Guerrero's 6th district for the 1991–1994 term and, from 1993 to 1996, he was the president of the PRI in the state of

Guerrero Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that compose the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guerrero, 85 municipalities. The stat ...

. On 12 March 1996, Governor of Guerrero Rubén Figueroa Alcocer resigned on account of the

Aguas Blancas massacre The Aguas Blancas Massacre was a massacre that took place on 28 June 1995, in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, Mexico, in which, according to the official version, 17 farmers were killed and 21 injured. Members of the ''Organiza ...

, where peasants were murdered by agents of the state police at the ford of Aguas Blancas in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez; the same day, the

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appointed Aguirre as interim governor, where he served until the end of Figueroa's term on 31 March 1999. In the 2003 mid-terms he was returned to the

to represent Guerrero's 8th district during the 59th Congress and, in the 2006 general election, he successfully ran for one of Guerrero's seats in the

, both times on the PRI ticket. On 25 August 2010, Aguirre announced that he was resigning his membership in the PRI and intended to pursue the PRD's candidacy for governor of Guerrero. He subsequently won the 30 January 2011 election and took office on 1 April. He resigned the governorship in October 2014 in the aftermath of the Iguala mass kidnapping of 26 September 2014.

References

External links

Official website of the Guerrero state government
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aguirre Rivero, Angel 1956 births Living people Politicians from Guerrero National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Governors of Guerrero Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico 20th-century Mexican politicians