| 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.
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]