| Ángel Aguirre Rivero | |
| Office: | Governor of Guerrero |
| Term Start: | 1 April 2011 |
| Term End: | 23 October 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Zeferino Torreblanca |
| Successor: | Rogelio Ortega Martínez |
| Birth Date: | 21 April 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico |
| Spouse: | Laura del Rocío Herrera |
| Profession: | Economist |
| Party: | (1984–2010) (2010–present) |
Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero (born 21 April 1956) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and formerly with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as governor of Guerrero from 2011 until he stepped down on 23 October 2014.[1] He has been a member of both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.[2] He served as interim governor of Guerrero between 1996 and 1999. He served a later term as governor of Guerrero between 2011 and 2014. In October 2014 he resigned after protests related to the Iguala mass kidnapping.[3]
Ángel Aguirre Rivero took a degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also served as professor in the same faculty. In 1991, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Guerrero's 6th district for the 1991–1994 term[4] and, from 1993 to 1996, he was the president of the PRI in the state of Guerrero.
On 12 March 1996, Governor of Guerrero Rubén Figueroa Alcocer resigned on account of the Aguas Blancas massacre, where peasants were murdered by agents of the state police at the ford of Aguas Blancas in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez; the same day, the Congress of Guerrero appointed Aguirre as interim governor, where he served until the end of Figueroa's term on 31 March 1999.
In the 2003 mid-terms he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Guerrero's 8th district during the 59th Congress[5] and, in the 2006 general election, he successfully ran for one of Guerrero's seats in the Senate, both times on the PRI ticket.[2] [6]
On 25 August 2010, Aguirre announced that he was resigning his membership in the PRI and intended to pursue the PRD's candidacy for governor of Guerrero.[7] He subsequently won the 30 January 2011 election[8] and took office on 1 April.
He resigned the governorship in October 2014 in the aftermath of the Iguala mass kidnapping of 26 September 2014.[1] [9]