Flavino Ríos Alvarado (born December 22, 1950) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

who served as the Interim

Governor of Veracruz The governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sov ...

from October 12 to November 30, 2016.

Life

Ríos was born in Minatitlán and obtained a doctorate degree in law from the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a 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 countries. It also has 34 ...

; he also taught law at the UNAM and

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and is a licensed public notary. He would go on to serve in the state government as executive secretary to the State Public Safety Council and as subsecretary of government. In 2010, Ríos was elected from the 28th state district of Veracruz, representing Minatitlán, to the 62nd Legislature of Veracruz. He was the president of the Political Coordination Board, the highest post in the state legislature. After serving as secretary of government, a majority of the members of the Permanent Commission of the state legislature appointed Ríos as governor on October 12, 2016, to fill the final 48 days of the term of Javier Duarte de Ochoa, who asked to step down after his administration was plagued by corruption scandals. On March 12, 2017, Veracruz authorities arrested Ríos, accusing him of aiding Duarte's escape and abusing his authority; a judge delivered a cautionary one-year jail sentence.

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