Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas Explained

Rafael Moreno Valle
Office:Governor of Puebla
Term Start:1 February 2011
Term End:31 January 2017
Predecessor:Mario Plutarco Marín Torres
Successor:José Antonio Gali Fayad
Office1:Senator for Puebla
Term Start1:1 September 2006
Term End1:4 July 2010
Predecessor1:Germán Sierra Sánchez
Successor1:María Leticia Jasso
Office3:Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 8th district of Puebla
Term Start3:1 September 2003
Term End3:11 August 2004
Predecessor3:Jaime Alcántara Silva
Successor3:José López Medina
Birth Date:30 June 1968
Birth Place:Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Death Place:Coronango, Puebla, Mexico
Profession:Lawyer and economist
Alma Mater:Lycoming College
Boston University School of Law[1]

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.

Death

See main article: 2018 Puebla helicopter crash.

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. 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gobierno . 2016-02-17 . 2017-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170117091126/http://www.puebla.gob.mx/gobierno . dead .
  2. News: Recibe Moreno Valle constancia de mayoría como gobernador electo. https://web.archive.org/web/20100715075758/http://www.milenio.com/node/484864. dead. 15 July 2010. 10 December 2013. Milenio Diario. 11 July 2010.
  3. Web site: Perfil del legislador. Legislative Information System. 24 December 2018.
  4. News: Falleció el general Rafael Moreno Valle, ex gobernador de Puebla . . 2016-02-13 . 2016-02-28.
  5. News: Se estrella avioneta en Puebla en pleno 24 de diciembre. El Sol de Puebla. 24 December 2018. 24 December 2018.
  6. News: Martha Erika y Rafael Moreno Valle irían en aeronave caída: AMLO. E-Consulta. 24 December 2018. 24 December 2018.
  7. Web site: March 27, 2020 . Malfunction caused copter crash that killed Mexico governor . March 28, 2020 . Associated Press.