Gilberto Flores Muñoz

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Gilberto Flores Muñoz (born May 4, 1906 in Compostela , Nayarit ; † October 6, 1978 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician of the Party of Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) , who was among other things governor of the state from 1946 to 1951 Nayarit and between 1952 and 1958 Minister of Food and Agriculture ( Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento ) . He and his wife were murdered on October 6, 1978.

Life

Officer, MP and Senator

Flores Muñoz, son of Guillermo Flores Flores and his wife Rafaela Muñoz, completed his training at the military school in Guadalajara , which he left without a degree. In 1923 he joined the army of the armed forces and supported the rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta in 1923/1924. However, he was captured and held in San Luis Potosí . After his release, he became captain of the cavalry in 1928 and shortly thereafter president of the Federal Committee for Conciliation and Arbitration in San Luis Potosí. After serving on the staff of General Francisco Carrera Torres , he became Labor Inspector of the State of San Luis Potosí in 1930 . As the successor of his relative Colonel José Márquez, he ran successfully for the National Revolutionary Party PNR (Partido Nacional Revolucionario) in 1930 for a seat in the House of Representatives (Cámara de Diputados) of the Congress of the Union (Congreso de la Union) and represented the state of San until 1932 Luis Potosí.

Between 1934 and 1937, Flores Muñoz again represented the state of San Luis Potosí in the House of Representatives. In addition, he was involved in the National Executive Committee of the PNR and was initially Secretary for Labor from 1934 to 1935, then between 1936 and 1937 Secretary for Education and most recently in 1937 Secretary General of the National Executive Committee of the PNR. In the gubernatorial elections on July 2, 1939, he was campaign manager for Reynaldo Pérez Gallardo, who was elected governor of the state of San Luis Potosí. He himself became a member of the Senate (Senado de México) of the Congress of the Union in 1940 and represented the state of San Luis Potosí in this until 1940. During his Senate membership, he temporarily chaired the Committee on Public Education and the Committee on General Communications, and Executive Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Security Committee.

Governor and Minister

On January 1, 1946, Flores Muñoz was governor of the state of Nayarit and held this office until December 1, 1951, whereupon he was replaced by José Limón Guzmán. He was then National Coordinator of the election campaign of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines , who became president on July 6, 1952 . Subsequently, this appointed him on December 1, 1952 as Minister of Food and Agriculture ( Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento ) in his government, which he belonged to the end of Ruiz Cortines' term on November 30, 1952. In 1957 he was one of the possible candidates of the Party of Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) for the presidential election on July 6, 1958, for which Adolfo López Mateos was ultimately able to prevail as a PRI candidate. After his election, the latter offered him the post of Minister for Agriculture and Food in his government, but Flores Muñoz waived the post, whereupon Julián Rodríguez Adame became the new minister on December 1, 1958.

He then largely withdrew from public life, before he was appointed President of the National Commission for the Sugar Industry (Comisión Nacional de la Industria Azucarera) in 1976 by the newly elected President José López Portillo . He held this position until October 6, 1978 when he was murdered together with his wife María Asunción Izquierdo in their house on Avenida de Las Palmas in Mexico City. His son Gilberto Flores Izquierdo was Deputy Medical Director of the Institute for Social Security IMSS ( Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ) .

Publications

  • Revolución versus imperialismo en la Comarca Lagunera , 1936
  • The New Deal and the Six Year Plan , 1937

Background literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yovana Celaya Nandez (Editor): Nayarit. Historia breve , p. XXI and a., Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2016, ISBN 6-0716-4033-4
  2. ^ Mexican States: Governors (rulers.org)
  3. ↑ EL NIETO DE FLORES MUÑOZ, CULPABLE PREFABRICADO, SOSTIENE LA DEFENSA . In: Proceso of October 9, 1982
  4. ↑ El escándalo de los Flores Muñoz. El ex gobernador de Nayarit y su mujer fueron asesinados a machetazos; Encerraron al nieto y 20 años después la historia dio un giro rotundo . In: El Grafico of October 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Flores Muñoz, Gilberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Compostela , Nayarit
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1978
Place of death Mexico city