MUJERES Y PODER

AMALIA GARCIA: LA PERSEVERANCIA

ONCE TV – ONCE – MEXICO

TV-Documentary-Biography by Isabelle Tardan

Amalia Dolores Garcia Medina was born in 1951. The documentary produced by ONCE in Mexico is contenting an interesting biography about her childhood, education, famliy background and above all: Her political life. The programme was produced in 1999 about 22 years ago.

Educated at National Autonoma de Mexico in Sociology.

Amalia Garcia is a Mexican politician and a former Governor of Zacatecas. Her political activities began when she joined the The Mexican Communist Party ( PCM) after the student revolts of 1968. She was a member of the Mexican Communist Party(PCM) from 1968 to 1981.Then she joined the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) in 1981.In 1989 she became a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

She was the fifth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state.