Amalia García
{{Short description|Mexican politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|García |Medina|lang=Spanish}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Amalia García
| image = Amalia_Garcia.jpg
| office = Governor of Zacatecas
| term_start = September 12, 2004
| term_end = September 11, 2010
| predecessor = Ricardo Monreal
| successor = Miguel Alonso Reyes
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|10|6}}
| birth_place = Zacatecas, Zacatecas
| birthname = Amalia Dolores García Medina
| nationality = MEX
| party = Mexican Communist Party (1968–1981)
Unified Socialist Party (1981–1987)
Mexican Socialist Party (1987–1989)
Party of the Democratic Revolution (1989–present)
| alma_mater = Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
| occupation = Politician
| profession = Sociologist
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Amalia Dolores García Medina (born October 6, 1951) is a Mexican politician and a former governor of Zacatecas.
Early life
García was born into a political family. When she was five, her father Francisco Garcia Estrada was elected governor of their home state of Zacatecas, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He held office from 1956 to 1962.{{Cite web|date=2004-07-04|title=Female candidate may make Mexican history - Taipei Times|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/04/2003177638|access-date=2021-08-30|website=www.taipeitimes.com}} Rather than following in his footsteps, García instead enrolled in the outlawed Mexican Communist Party (PCM) after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and the Tlatelolco massacre.
Political career
García's political stance became more moderate over time, and she played a key role in turning the PCM into a "neo-Communist" party. She followed the PCM into the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) in 1981. After briefly being a member of the Mexican Socialist Party, she became a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) when it was created in 1989.
From 1999 to 2002, she served as president of the PRD. In 1996, she ran (unsuccessfully) for party president; she ran again, and won, in 2000.
On June 24, 2018, she renounced to PRD, after 29 years of advocacy, arguing "the great debate of ideas that constituted one of its strengths, has been totally replaced by agreements for the distribution of quotas".{{Cite web|url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/2018/06/prd-amalia-garcia/|title=Amalia García renuncia al PRD {{!}} Animal Político|website=www.animalpolitico.com|date=June 24, 2018 |language=es-ES|access-date=2018-06-26}}
Governor of Zacatecas
In 2003, Garcia was selected as the PRD's candidate in the 2004 Zacatecas gubernatorial election. On July 4, 2004, she won a convincing victory and was sworn in as the first female governor of Zacatecas on September 12, 2004.[http://www.iamericas.org/cepas/events/tequila-talk-with-amalia-garcia-governor-of-the-state-of-zacatecas-mexico.html Amalia Garcia – Governor of the state of Zacatecas]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1573950|title=MEXICO. PRIMERA GOBERNADORA EN ZACATECAS|last=Tiempo|first=Casa Editorial El|website=El Tiempo|date=July 5, 2004 |language=es-CO|access-date=2018-06-26}} She had been endorsed by a former Governor of Zacatecas, José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona, who renounced his membership in PRI to support Garcia.{{cite news|title=Fallece ex gobernador zacatecano José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona |url=http://ciudadypoder.com.mx/blogs/noticias/index.php/noticias/nacionales/item/13280-fallece-ex-gobernador-zacatecano-jos%C3%A9-guadalupe-cervantes-corona |work=Ciudad y Poder |date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=2013-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617165714/http://ciudadypoder.com.mx/blogs/noticias/index.php/noticias/nacionales/item/13280-fallece-ex-gobernador-zacatecano-jos%C3%A9-guadalupe-cervantes-corona |archive-date=June 17, 2013 }}
She was the fifth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state. Earlier women governors were Griselda Álvarez (Colima, 1979–1985), Beatriz Paredes (Tlaxcala, 1987–1992), Dulce María Sauri (Yucatán, 1991–1994), Rosario Robles Berlanga (Distrito Federal, 1999–2000).
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{{succession box| before=Ricardo Monreal Ávila | after = Miguel Alonso Reyes | title=Governor of Zacatecas| years=2004–2010 }}
{{succession box | before = Pablo Gómez Álvarez | title = President of the Party of the Democratic Revolution | years = 2000–2002 | after = Rosario Robles Berlanga}}
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Category:Governors of Zacatecas
Category:Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Category:Presidents of the Party of the Democratic Revolution
Category:Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Category:21st-century Mexican politicians
Category:21st-century Mexican women politicians