Jorge Juan Torres López (born February 20, 1954

Saltillo Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and highwa ...

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and member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI). Torres served as the

Governor of Coahuila List of Governors of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila de Zaragoza, since its establishment as the province of Nueva Extremadura in Northern New Spain, later province of Coahuila and Texas, and Coahuila as a Mexican state. Coahuila du ...

from January 4, 2011, until December 1, 2011. Jorge Torres Lopez previously held office as the Municipal President of

from 2007 to 2009. In 2011, incumbent Coahuila Governor

Humberto Moreira Humberto Moreira Valdés (born 28 July 1966) is a Mexican politician who served as President of the . He was Governor of the State of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011. Moreira was included in a list of the "10 most corrupt Mexicans" published by '' ...

left office early to become

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. The Coahuila State Congress selected Torres as interim Governor to fill out the remainder of Moreira's unexpired term. Jorge Torres Lopez served as Governor until December 1, 2011, when he was succeeded by newly elected Governor Rubén Moreira Valdez.

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