Antonio Riva Palacio

{{short description|Mexican politician}}

{{family name hatnote|Riva Palacio|López|lang=Spanish}}

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| name = Antonio Riva Palacio

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| office = Governor of Morelos

| term_start = 18 May 1988

| term_end = 17 May 1994

| predecessor = Lauro Ortega Martínez

| successor = Jorge Carrillo Olea

| office2 = Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 1st district of Morelos

| term_start2 = 1 September 1976

| term_end2 = 31 August 1979

| predecessor2 = José Castillo Pombo

| successor2 = David Jiménez González

| birth_date = 1926

| birth_place = Cuernavaca, Morelos

| death_date = July 14, 2014

| death_place = Cuernavaca, Morelos

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| profession = Lawyer

| party = Institutional Revolutionary Party

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Antonio Riva Palacio López (1926 – July 14, 2014) was a Mexican lawyer, politician, and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the Governor of Morelos for a full six-year term from 1988 until 1994. He was also appointed as Mexico's Ambassador to Ecuador from 1994 to 1998.{{cite news|title=Fallece el ex gobernador de Morelos, Antonio Riva Palacio |url=http://www.informador.com.mx/mexico/2014/538570/6/fallece-el-ex-gobernador-de-morelos-antonio-riva-palacio.htm |work=El Informador (Mexico) |date=2014-07-16 |access-date=2014-08-11}}{{cite news|first=David |last=Monroy |title=Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos |url=http://www.milenio.com/estados/fallece_ex_gobernador-muere_Antonio_Riva_Palacio-ex_gobernador_Morelos_0_335966810.html |work=Milenio |date=2014-07-15 |access-date=2014-08-11}}{{cite news|first=Justino|last=Miranda |title=Muere Antonio Riva Palacio, ex gobernador de Morelos |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/2014/muere-riva-palacio-ex-gobernador-de-morelos--1023578.html |work=El Universal (Mexico City) |date=2014-07-16 |access-date=2014-08-11}}

He was speaker of the senate during the LIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

After leaving the governor's office, Riva Palacio was accused of leaving the state deep in debt while personally becoming wealthy. He was alleged to have committed hundreds of cases of abuse of power, nepotism, and other crimes, including homicide. On August 5, 1993, he and his attorney general, Tomás Flores Allende, were nearly lynched in Jonacatepec after the police attacked several of the townspeople. The citizens were repressed by Grupo Scorpion under the command of Colonel Jorge Encinas Gutiérrz. None of the accusations went to trial.{{cite web |url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/377325/muere-antonio-riva-palacio-lopez-exgobernador-de-morelos |title= Muere Antonio Riva Palacio López, exgobernador de Morelos|website=www.proceso.com.mx |access-date=Dec 30, 2018}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}