Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes (August 16, 1962 – February 24, 2005) was a Mexican politician. At the time of his death he was serving 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 ...

, representing the

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(PRI). Vázquez Montes was born in

Tecomán Tecomán is a city and seat of the municipality of Tecomán in the Mexican state of Colima, about 50 km south of the city of Colima. In the 2005 census the city had a population of 112,726 people. It is the third-largest community in the st ...

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. After graduating from teacher-training college and entering politics, he served as the mayor of his hometown and as a local deputy in the Congress of Colima. He was selected as the PRI's candidate in the 2003 gubernatorial election and, after heated disputes and the annulment of the first round, he was declared the victor and began his term as Governor on January 1, 2004.

Career

Vázquez Montes served as a professor of Elementary and Secondary Education. He was an official in Tecomán City Council in several administrations, alderman, civic leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, president of the Mexican Network of Healthy Municipalities, local deputy in the LI Legislature of the Congress of Colima, then Mayor of Tecomán, Colima from 1997 to 2000. He served again as a deputy in the LIII Legislature of the Congress of Colima, and also served as Secretary General and Chairman of the State Executive Committee of the PRI. Vázquez Montes was president of the State Congress four times and served on the Health and Education Committees. He was a distinguished member of the Standing Conference of Local Legislators PRI and a distinguished member of the PRI National Political Council.

Governor

Vázquez Montes triumphed in the elections held on July 6, 2003, obtaining the majority of votes cast, compared to his opponent, the PAN candidate. However, regular elections were nullified by the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation stating illegal intervention in the same of Governor Fernando Moreno Peña. Vázquez Montes was again nominated as the PRI candidate for governor in a special election that was necessary to convene. Vázquez Montes won again, again getting most of the votes cast. Vázquez Montes assumed the governorship on January 1, 2004, to conclude the period ending October 31, 2009.

Death

On February 24, 2005, while traveling to

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from

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, his six-seater Westwind 1124 aeroplane developed problems shortly after its 16h15 take-off from

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airport and crashed in the municipality of Tzitzio,

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, 70 km to the southeast of

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. The governor was killed, along with the pilot, Captain Mario Torres González, and copilot, Captain Germán Ascencio Fauvet; the Colima state secretaries of tourism and finance, Roberto Preciado Cuevas and Luis Ramón Barreda Cedillo; the state's tourism director, Guillermo Díaz Zamorano; and local Coparmex president Alejandro Dávila. In the immediate aftermath of the accident,

Arnoldo Ochoa González Arnoldo Ochoa González (born January 27, 1951) is a Mexican politician, federal deputy and vice president of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico. He was an interim Governor of Colima after the death in an accident of Gustavo Vázquez. Before be ...

was appointed acting governor and a special election was called for April 2005.

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Career

Governor

Death

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