Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician affiliated at different times with both the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...
(PRI) and the
National Action Party (PAN). He was the
governor of Puebla
The governor of Puebla is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Puebla.
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from February 2011 through January 2017.
Moreno Valle also served as a deputy during the
59th Congress, representing Puebla's
8th district for the PRI, and as a senator in the
60th,
61st and
64th sessions of
Congress
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for the PAN.
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.
He was also the spouse of
Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, the first woman governor of Puebla.
Death
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, half an hour from the city of Puebla, killing both. In a tweet, President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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indicated that Alonso and Moreno Valle were on the downed aircraft. At the time, Moreno Valle was a proportional representation senator. Alonso had become the first female
governor of Puebla
The governor of Puebla is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Puebla.
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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.
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1968 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from Puebla (city)
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
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National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Mexico
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2018
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Victims of helicopter accidents or incidents