Angélica García Arrieta
Born(1958-08-27)August 27, 1958
DiedDecember 22, 2018(2018-12-22) (aged 60)
NationalityMexican
OccupationPolitician

Angélica García Arrieta (27 August 1958 – 22 December 2018) was a Mexican public accountant and politician, Senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress, and founder of the National Regeneration Movement political party.[1]

Life

García Arrieta, a native of Tetepango,[2] obtained her degree in accounting in 1981 from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.[3] She worked as an auditor in the 1980s at the general hospital of Pachuca, at the state CONASUPO distributor, and at DICONSA. In 1999, she was elected to a three-year term as a local deputy in the Hidalgo state legislature.[3] In 2005, García Arrieta served as the coordinator of get-out-the-vote efforts for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Tepeapulco, Hidalgo; at the time, both she and López Obrador were members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.[3] After the 2012 election, she became a founding member of MORENA and rose to become the secretary general of the state party in Hidalgo.[3] García Arrieta was elected to the Senate in June 2018, sharing a ticket with Julio Ramón Menchaca Salazar. She was the secretary of the Mining and Regional Development Commission and sat on four other commissions in the Senate.[3]

Her death was announced by Senate leader Martí Batres Guadarrama on 22 December 2018.[1] Friends of the senator stated she died due to complications of diabetes.[4] Alternate senator María Merced González González, an environmental activist and accountant, was sworn in to replace her on January 2, 2019.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Notimex (22 December 2018). "Fallece la senadora de Morena, Angélica García Arrieta" [Morena senator Angélica García Arrieta dies] (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Murió la senadora Angélica García Arrieta, una de las fundadoras de Morena" [Senator Angélica García Arrieta, one of the founders of Morena, dies]. Milenio (in Spanish). 22 December 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Montoya, Juan Ricardo (22 December 2018). "Fallece senadora de Morena, Angélica García Arrieta" [Morena senator Angélica García Arrieta passes away]. La Jornada (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. ↑ Ortega, Víctor (2 January 2019). "Asume sustituto de extinto legislador" [Substitute of deceased legislator takes office]. El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 March 2019.


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