Rubén Figueroa Alcocer

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Figueroa and the second or maternal family name is Alcocer.
Rubén Figueroa Alcocer
Governor of Guerrero
In office
1 April 1993 – 12 March 1996
Preceded byJosé Francisco Ruiz Massieu
Succeeded byÁngel Aguirre Rivero
Senator for Guerrero
In office
1991–1992
Federal deputy for Guerrero's 10th
In office
1988–1991
Federal deputy for the Federal District's 17th
In office
1979–1982
Personal details
Born (1939-12-04) 4 December 1939 (age 85)
Huitzuco, Guerrero, Mexico
Political partyPRI
OccupationPolitician

Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (born 4 December 1939) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He has served in both chambers of Congress and was governor of Guerrero from 1993 to 1996.

Career

Figueroa Alcocer was born in Huitzuco, Guerrero, in 1939.[a] In 1957 he enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), from where he graduated with a degree in law. He began his political career in 1960.[2]

In the 1979 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the Federal District's 17th congressional district (1979–1982).[3] He ran again for Congress in the 1988 general election and served another three-year term (1988–1991) representing Guerrero's 10th district.[4]

He was elected to the Senate for the state of Guerrero in the 1991 election. In mid-1992, however, he took leave of his Senate seat to seek election as governor of Guerrero for the 1993–1999 term. He was announced the winner of the 7 February 1993 election and was sworn in as governor on 1 April. His opponent, Félix Salgado Macedonio [es] of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), alleged fraud and his supporters occupied the esplanade in front of the government palace in Chilpancingo until the following July.[2][5]

On 28 June 1995, in the coastal municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, 17 campesinos were killed by Guerrero state police in the Aguas Blancas massacre.[6][7] On 12 March 1996, Figueroa Alcocer presented the Congress of Guerrero with his resignation from the governorship "to facilitate the investigation of the incident" by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. He was replaced for the remainder of his term by Ángel Aguirre Rivero.[2]

Personal life

Figueroa Alcocer's father was Rubén Figueroa Figueroa [es] (1908–1991), who served as governor of Guerrero from 1975 to 1981.[2][8] His son, Rubén Figueroa Smutny, is a former federal deputy.[9][10]

Notes

  1. ^ Huitzuco was renamed Huitzuco de los Figueroa on 1 April 1942 "in recognition of the [Figueroa] family and the role they played in the Mexican Revolution" of 1910–1920.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Historia de Huitzuco de los Figueroa" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Huitzuco. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Personajes ilustres: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Huitzuco. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Legislatura 51" (PDF) (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Legislatura 54" (PDF) (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Rubén Figueroa y Félix Salgado, una historia de arreglos en lo oscurito". Amapola: Periodismo Transgresor (in Spanish). 22 February 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  6. ^ "La matanza de Aguas Blancas" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 November 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Massacre in Mexico: Killings and Cover-up in the State of Guerrero" (PDF). Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. 1995. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Personajes ilustres: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Huitzuco. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  9. ^ Contreras, Karina (8 January 2013). "A Figueroa Smutny "todo se lo ha dado su padre": Terrazas". El Sur: Periódico de Guerrero (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Perfil: Dip. José Rubén Figueroa Smutny". Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) (in Spanish). SEGOB. Retrieved 19 August 2024.