Beatriz Paredes Rangel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Beatriz Paredes Rangel

Governor of Tlaxcala, Mexico, and chairwoman of the PRI

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1953

Place of Birth: Tlaxcala, Mexico

Profession: politician, diplomat, sociologist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Beatriz Paredes Rangel

  • Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel (born 18 August 1953) is a Mexican politician who served as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
  • She was the first woman to serve as Governor of Tlaxcala and the second woman to serve as a state governor in Mexican history.Paredes Rangel studied Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never graduated.
  • She began her political career at the age of 21 as a Tlaxcala state deputy (1974–77) and then served as advisor for the Governor of Tlaxcala (1978–80).
  • In 1982 she was appointed Undersecretary for Agrarian Reform and from 1987 to 1992 she served as Governor of Tlaxcala.
  • She has also served in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senate and President Carlos Salinas appointed her Ambassador to Cuba in 1993.
  • She was the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 2001-2002.In the 2006 Federal District election she ran for Head of Government (mayor) of Mexico City, representing an alliance of the PRI and the PVEM; she lost the election against Marcelo Ebrard. Paredes has occupied different positions in the PRI, mostly representing the rural and indigenous wings of the party.
  • She served as general secretary of the PRI and ran for the presidency of her party but lost to Roberto Madrazo.
  • In 2007, she ran again for the party's presidency and won by a large margin.
  • Paredes has also expressed her support for the recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico in 2010 after Mexico City legalized same sex marriage.On 5 October 2009 she publicly acknowledged her interest in running for President of Mexico in 2012 and her pro-choice stand on abortion issues.
  • She is currently the ambassador of Mexico in Brazil.
  • She is also a member of Washington D.C.
  • based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue.

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