Práxedes Giner Durán | |
Office: | Governor of Chihuahua |
Term Start: | October 4, 1962 |
Term End: | October 3, 1968 |
Predecessor: | Teófilo Borunda |
Successor: | Oscar Flores Sánchez |
Birth Date: | 15 February 1893 |
Birth Place: | Camargo, Chihuahua[1] |
Spouse: | Honorata Díaz de Bustamante |
Occupation: | General officer |
Práxedes Giner Durán (February 15, 1893 – May 13, 1978) was a Mexican military official, politician, and member of the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He participated in the Mexican Revolution as a part of Pancho Villa's famed División del Norte and became an icon in his home state.[2] He was the Governor of Chihuahua from 1962 until 1968.
In 1965, while serving as governor, he allegedly ordered the massacre of a group of farmers and teachers who were protesting for land reform in the town of Ciudad Madera, and ordered that the bodies be buried in a mass grave.[3]