Rafael Moreno Valle | |
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Governor of Puebla | |
In office 1 February 2011 – 31 January 2017 | |
Preceded by | Mario Plutarco Marín Torres |
Succeeded by | José Antonio Gali Fayad |
Senator for Puebla | |
In office 1 September 2006 – 4 July 2010 | |
Preceded by | Germán Sierra Sánchez |
Succeeded by | María Leticia Jasso |
Deputy of the
Congress of the Union for the 8th district of Puebla | |
In office 1 September 2003 – 11 August 2004 | |
Preceded by | Jaime Alcántara Silva |
Succeeded by | José López Medina |
Personal details | |
Born | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | 30 June 1968
Died | 24 December 2018 Coronango, Puebla, Mexico | (aged 50)
Political party | National Action Party |
Spouse | |
Alma mater |
Lycoming College Boston University School of Law [1] |
Profession | Lawyer and economist |
Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He was the governor of Puebla from February 2011 through January 2017. [2]
Moreno Valle also served as a deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla and as a senator in the LX, LXI and LXIV Legislatures. [3]
Moreno Valle was the grandson of Rafael Moreno Valle, a doctor and politician who also served as the governor of Puebla from 1969 to 1972. [4] He was also the spouse of Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, the first woman governor of Puebla.
On 24 December 2018, a helicopter carrying Moreno Valle, his wife Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, and other PAN politicians from the state crashed in a field near the town of Santa María Coronango, [5] half an hour from the city of Puebla, killing both. In a tweet, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador indicated that Alonso and Moreno Valle were on the downed aircraft. [6] At the time, Moreno Valle was a proportional representation senator. [3] Alonso had become the first female governor of Puebla only ten days before she was killed.
A 27 March 2020 report by Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) concluded that the helicopter “should not have flown” because of a preexisting problem with a stability system on the helicopter that both the operator and the maintenance crew knew about. [7]