Nereida Fuentes González

Nereida Fuentes González (born in Coahuila, México) is a Mexican politician and the first female mayor of Tecate, Baja California.
Personal life
Fuentes González was born in Coahuila, but her parents, Juan Fuentes Oroña and Julia González Sandoval, moved to the municipality of Tecate when she was a girl. She studied high school at the Francisco I. Madero school and graduated with a degree in Foreign Trade and Customs Legislation with a specialty in Marketing at the CUT University of Tijuana. In 2012 she married Marco Antonio Lizárraga Navarro and has a son named Nery Antonio.
Fuentes González began her political career at the age of seventeen, when she joined the Solidaridad a Tecate program, providing assistance to the inhabitants of marginalized neighborhoods. Once she finished her studies and affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) since she came of age, she became the councillor of the 20th constitutional council of Tecate, Baja California, and secretary general of the PRI State Steering Committee in the same state in 2011. She was named coordinator of the Administrative Modernization Subcommittee in 2012.
She began her campaign as a candidate for the PRI-PVEM coalition to become a deputy for the 7th district at the beginning of 2013. The race for the deputation was between three candidates, Nereida Fuentes, from Commitment to Baja California; Ivonne Diego Muñoz, from Unidos por Baja California; and Consuelo Sandoval Frías, from the Citizen Movement. Nereida Fuentes won the deputation in the elections of July 7, 2013 and took protest in October of the same year. Once in his post, the State Congress assigned her responsibilities as representative of the Energy and Hydraulic Resources Commission, the Finance and Budget Commission, Jurisdictional Commission, Family, Religious Affairs and Civil Protection and the secretariat in the Reform Commission of the First State.
Her candidacy for the federal deputation of the PRI-PVEM coalition for District 7 based in Mexicali was announced in April 2015, amid the controversy generated by the resignation of the candidacy of Francisco Pérez Tejada for a legal process for embezzlement. Ten days later her candidacy was confirmed, after the candidate withdrew from the local Congress, to avoid a possible conflict of interests. She lost the federal elections on June 7, 2015 and returned to her activities as a local legislator.
She started her political campaign as a candidate for municipal president of Tecate by the PRI-PT-PVEM-PANAL coalition in early 2016 and was the winner in the elections on June 5. She was sworn in as mayor of the municipality on November 30 of the same year and became the first female mayor in the history of Tecate. The book's main theme is outstanding women in various fields of the state of Baja California.

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