Angélica García Arrieta

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]

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

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. 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. "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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