Mariano Piña Olaya | |
Office: | Governor of Puebla |
Term Start: | 1 February 1987 |
Term End: | 31 January 1993 |
Predecessor: | Guillermo Jiménez Morales |
Successor: | Manuel Bartlett Díaz |
Office2: | President of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start2: | 1 December 1982 |
Term End2: | 31 August 1983 |
Predecessor2: | Mario Vargas Saldaña |
Successor2: | Irma Cué de Duarte |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Puebla′s 10th district |
Term Start3: | 1 September 1982 |
Term End3: | 31 August 1985 |
Predecessor3: | Alfonso Zegbe Sanen |
Successor3: | Carlos Palafox Vázquez |
Birth Date: | 29 March 1933 |
Birth Place: | Champusco, Puebla, Mexico |
Party: | Institutional Revolutionary |
Education: | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Mariano Piña Olaya (Champusco, Puebla, March 29, 1933) is a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Puebla from 1987 to 1993.[1]
Piña Olaya studied the law in the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party he served as Federal Deputy in the LII Legislature from 1982 to 1985, in which he occupied the position of President of the Great Commission. Piña Olaya became governor of the State of Puebla in 1987 and served until 1993, but was viewed as weak and unpopular.[2] Later, he became general director of the former Mexican Light and Power Company, and then sub-coordinator of Public Security during the six-year term of the President Carlos Salinas.