page_title: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
section_title: Politician
hierarchical_section_title: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega / Politician
caption_attribution_description: English: Press Conference of the Secretariat of Organization of the National Executive Committee (PRI) Español: Conferencia de Prensa de la Secretaría de Organización del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
context_page_description: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega was a Mexican Naval officer and politician.
context_section_description: On December 1, 1964 he was appointed General Director of Railways in Operation, under the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, by agreement of the President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. (1964–1970). In 1970, during the presidential campaign of Luis Echeverría Álvarez, he was appointed Officer of the Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies (IEPES in Spanish) in the state of Veracruz. 
  In 1970, he occupied a [curule] seat as Senator, representing his home state in the XLIX and XLVIII Legislatures. He joined a partisan task committee, first in 1971, as the officer of the National Confederation of Popular Organizations (CNOP in Spanish) in the State of Nuevo León, and then as General Delegate to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in the State of Baja California Norte.
  In March 1973, he became Secretary General of the National Executive Committee (CEN) of the PRI), and at the same time was a Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1968-1974.
  In October 1975, at the end of his term as Secretary General, he was appointed General Delegate in the State of Jalisco.  In March 1976, he was appointed General Delegate in the State of Baja California. He was designated as PRI's CEN regional officer during the campaign of José López Portillo.
  On December 1, 1976, he was designated Subsecretary of Communications and Transportation, ending his term in 1982.  At the conclusion of his management in this position in September 1981, he joined Miguel de la Madrid as political adviser of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda of the Executive Committee for the PRI national campaign.
  In January 1983, he was appointed General Delegate of the PRI's National Executive Committee (CEN) in South Baja California, and in March 1984  for the State of Hidalgo.
  On September 20, 1984, he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral by President de la Madrid.
  He was positioned by the Institutional Revolutionary Party as their Federal Deputy candidate for the second district of Aguascalientes to which he was elected on July 7, 1985. He was a member of the Electoral College and served as Secretary of the Board. He was Chairman of the Committee on Energy during the Legislature and member of the Committee of Communications, Transportation and Marine.
  On May 30, 1986, he was designated as the PRI pre-candidate to the State Government. By December 1986, he took the office of Constitutional Governor of the State for the period 1986-1992.
  When his term ended, he became leader of the Popular Sector of the PRI presidential campaigns of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Ernesto Zedillo during the years 1993-1994.
  Within the Navy of Mexico, he held the rank of Vice-Admiral.
  He married Miriam Cruz Valdez, with whom he had 6 children: Miguel Angel, Marco Antonio (†), Mario Alberto (†), Manuel Alejandro (†), Martín Andrés, and Marina.
  Vega died on 17 June 1999.
caption: Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega in Veracruz
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