Mariano Piña Olaya (Champusco, Puebla, March 29, 1933) is a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Puebla from 1987 to 1993.[1]
Mariano Piña Olaya | |
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Governor of Puebla | |
In office 1 February 1987 – 31 January 1993 | |
Preceded by | Guillermo Jiménez Morales |
Succeeded by | Manuel Bartlett Díaz |
President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 December 1982 – 31 August 1983 | |
Preceded by | Mario Vargas Saldaña |
Succeeded by | Irma Cué de Duarte |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Puebla′s 10th district | |
In office 1 September 1982 – 31 August 1985 | |
Preceded by | Alfonso Zegbe Sanen |
Succeeded by | Carlos Palafox Vázquez |
Personal details | |
Born | Champusco, Puebla, Mexico | 29 March 1933
Political party | Institutional Revolutionary |
Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Career
editPiña Olaya studied the law in the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party he served as Federal Deputy in the LII Legislature from 1982 to 1985, in which he occupied the position of President of the Great Commission. Piña Olaya became governor of the State of Puebla in 1987 and served until 1993,[1] but was viewed as weak and unpopular.[2] Later, he became general director of the former Mexican Light and Power Company, and then sub-coordinator of Public Security during the six-year term of the President Carlos Salinas.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993. University of Texas Press. pp. 559–560. ISBN 978-0-292-71181-5.
- ^ Snyder, Richard Owen (2001). Politics After Neoliberalism: Reregulation In Mexico. Cambridge University Press. pp. 165–166. ISBN 978-0-521-79034-5.