Amalia García

Amalia García Medina (b. 6 October 1951) is a Mexican politician.

She was born into a political family — when she was five, her father Francisco García Estrada was elected governor of their home state of Zacatecas, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). However, being nearly of university age during the student revolts of 1968, and witnessing the Tlatelolco massacre that put such a violent end to them, turned her against the official party and she instead enrolled in the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) at a time when it was still outlawed. Her political stance became more moderate with the passage of the years, and she left the Communists for the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM). From there she went on to be a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) when it was created in 1989.

In the 1990s she served as both a deputy and a senator for the PRD. In 1996 she ran (unsuccessfully) for party president; she ran again, and won, in 2000.

In 2003 she was selected as the PRD's candidate in the 2004 Zacatecas gubernatorial election. In the election of 4 July 2004 she won a convincing victory and was sworn in as the first female governor of Zacatecas on 12 September 2004.

External links

• Amalia García's campaign website (in Spanish)
• Website as governor (in Spanish)