Amalia García

Who is Amalia García?

Amalia Dolores García Medina is a Mexican politician and a former governor of Zacatecas.

García was born into a political family. When she was five, her father Francisco Garcia Estrada was elected governor of their home state of Zacatecas, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Rather than following in his footsteps, García instead enrolled in the outlawed Mexican Communist Party after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and the Tlatelolco massacre. Her political stance became more moderate over time and she left the PCM for the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico. From there she went on to be a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution 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 for party president; she ran again, and won, in 2000.