María de los Ángeles Moreno

María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas (15 January 1945 – 27 April 2019) was a Mexican politician[1] who was the first woman to be elected president of a Mexican political party.

María de los Ángeles Moreno
President of the Senate
In office 1 October 1997 – 31 October 1997
Preceded by	Eduardo Andrade Sánchez
Succeeded by	Fernando Solana
36th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
In office 4 December 1994 – 18 August 1995
Preceded by	Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
Succeeded by	Santiago Oñate Laborde
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 November 1992 – 30 November 1992
Preceded by	Gustavo Carvajal Moreno
Succeeded by	Guillermo Pacheco Pulido
Secretary of Fisheries
In office 1 December 1988 – 16 May 1991
President	Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Preceded by	Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Succeeded by	Guillermo Jiménez Morales
Personal details
Born	15 January 1945 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	27 April 2019 (aged 74) Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary
Education	National Autonomous University of Mexico

Personal life and education

Born in Mexico City, Moreno Uriegas was the daughter of Manuel Moreno and Amalia Uriegas Sánchez. She held a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.

Political career

Moreno Uriegas became an active member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1960. She served in the cabinet of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Secretary of Fisheries from December 1988 to May 1991. She was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where she served as President in 1992.[2] In December 1994, Moreno was elected President of her political party, becoming the first woman in Mexico to hold that position. From 1994 to 2000, she served in the Senate, representing the Federal District; in 1997, she was the President of the Senate and in 1999, President of the Permanent Commission of the Congress. From 2000 to 2003, she served as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District. In 2006, she returned to the Senate through the proportional representation (PR) mechanism.[3]

Moreno died in Mexico City on 27 April 2019, at the age of 74.[4]

References

1. Rodríguez, Victoria Elizabeth (2003). Women in contemporary Mexican politics. University of Texas Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-0-292-77127-7. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
2. Enciclopedia Política de México 9 Tomo V. (PDF). Senade de la República - Instituto Belisario Domínguez. 2010.
3. "¿Quién fue María de los Ángeles Moreno?". El Universal. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
4. "Falleció María de los Ángeles Moreno, expresidenta nacional del PRI". El Universal (in Spanish). 27 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019.