Beatriz Elena Paredes Rangel

Background

Paredes Rangel, Beatriz Elena was born on August 18, 1953 in Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Education

Primary, secondary and preparatory studies, Tlaxcala. Sociology degree, School of Political and Social Science, United Nations AM. Professor, Institute of Political Education, Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1981-1982.

Career

Local Deputy to the State Legislature of Tlaxcala, 1974-1977, president of the State Legislature. Federal Deputy from the State of Tlaxcala, District 2, 1979-1982. Federal Deputy from the State of Tlaxcala, District 2, 1985-1986.

Governor of Tlaxcala, since 1986. Secretary of Indigenous Action of the National Executive Committee of the National Revolutionary Youth Movement of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1973. Secretary of Organization of the Regional Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, State of Tlaxcala, 1975-1977.

Subsecretary of Agrarian Organization, Secretariat of Agrarian Reform, 1982-1985. Second women to serve as a state governor.

Achievements

• First woman to answer a presidential State of the Union address.

Religion

Roman Catholic

Membership

Secretary of Planning and Family Orientation, National Executive Committee of the National Farmers’ Federation, 1980-1983. Auxiliary Secretary of the League of Agrarian Communities and Peasant Unions of Tlaxcala. Secretary General of the League of Agrarian Communities and Peasant Unions of Tlaxcala, 1977-1979.

Secretary of Educational Action of the National Executive Committee of the National Farmers’ Federation, 1980-1983.