Monica Tzasna Arriola Gordillo (14 May 1971 – 14 March 2016) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the New Alliance Party. She died of brain cancer on 14 March 2016 in

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Personal life and education

Arriola Gordillo was the daughter of

Elba Esther Gordillo Elba Esther Gordillo Morales (; 6 February 1945) is a Mexican politician and trade unionist who has been the leader of the 1.4-million-strong National Education Workers' Union (''Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación'', or SNTE), ...

. She got her

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in Latin American literature from the

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Political career

Arriola was a member of the New Alliance Party who in 2006 secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico via

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to serve during the LX Legislature. In October 2006 she traveled to other Latin American countries with Felipe Calderón during the first overseas trip of Calderon as president-elect of Mexico.

References

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