 amalia dolores garcÃ­a medina (born october 6, 1951) is a mexican politician and a former governor of zacatecas. garcÃ­a 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 (pri). rather than following in his footsteps, garcÃ­a instead enrolled in the outlawed mexican communist party (pcm) after witnessing the student revolts of 1968 and the tlatelolco massacre. her political stance became more moderate over time, and she played a key role in turning the pcm into a "neo-communist" party. she followed the pcm into the unified socialist party of mexico (psum) in 1981. after briefly being a member of the socialist mexican party, she became a founding member of the party of the democratic revolution (prd) 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 (unsuccessfully) for party president; she ran again, and won, in 2000. ==governor of zacatecas== in 2003 she was selected as the prd's candidate in the 2004 zacatecas gubernatorial election. in the election of july 4, 2004 she won a convincing victory and was sworn in as the first female governor of zacatecas on september 12, 2004.amalia garcia - governor of the state of zacatecas she had been endorsed by a former governor of zacatecas, josÃ© guadalupe cervantes corona, who renounced his membership in pri to suuport garcia.{{cite news|first=|last=|title=fallece ex gobernador zacatecano josÃ© guadalupe cervantes corona |url=http://ciudadypoder.com.mx/blogs/noticias/index.php/noticias/nacionales/item/13280-fallece-ex-gobernador-zacatecano-jos%c3%a9-guadalupe-cervantes-corona |work=ciudad y poder |publisher= |date
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