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José Antonio Álvarez Lima

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Álvarez and the second or maternal family name is Lima.
José Antonio Cruz Álvarez Lima
Senator for Tlaxcala
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 29, 2018
Succeeded byJoel Molina Ramírez (alternate, March 2019–October 2020)
Governor of Tlaxcala
In office
February 15, 1993 – February 14, 1999
Preceded bySamuel Quiroz de la Vega
Succeeded byAlfonso Sánchez Anaya
Senator for Tlaxcala
In office
1991–1992
Preceded byÁlvaro Salazar Lozano
Succeeded byErnesto García Sarmiento
Federal deputy
for Tlaxcala's 1st district
In office
1982–1985
Preceded bySalvador Domínguez Sánchez
Succeeded byBeatriz Paredes Rangel
Personal details
Born (1942-05-03) May 3, 1942 (age 82)
Apizaco, Tlaxcala
Political partyMORENA

José Antonio Cruz Álvarez Lima (born May 3, 1942)[1] is a Mexican politician and senator representing the state of Tlaxcala in the 64th Congress. A member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) political party, Álvarez Lima was also Governor of Tlaxcala from 1993 to 1999 and previously served as a federal deputy, senator, ambassador to Colombia, and head of multiple national public broadcasters.

Life

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Early years

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Álvarez Lima was born in Apizaco, Tlaxcala. As a child, he worked in a shoe store owned by friends of his father.[2] A graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) after a brief stint at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education,[2] he taught at several universities, including the Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, and the UNAM; he was the president of the National Political Science College, a professional organization, from 1979 to 1980.[1]

After several years as the deputy director of operations at Canal Once and a stint as the news director of Canal 13, in 1980, Álvarez Lima was tapped to run public radio station Radio Educación, leaving the station two years later in order to seek election to the Chamber of Deputies.[3] Under his management, the technical and production departments were reorganized, and the station broadened its mix of music.[3]: 79  He then served three years in the LII Legislature of the Mexican Congress (1982–1985), representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and a two-year term as ambassador to Colombia.[1]

Álvarez Lima became the director of Imevisión, which operated two national television networks, in 1988. He pioneered the model by which the FIFA World Cup was broadcast by both Televisa and Imevisión, an innovation that continues to the present day.[4]

First Senate term and governorship

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After leaving the broadcaster in 1991,[5] Álvarez Lima was elected to the Senate for the LV Legislature.[1] He resigned the next year, however, and successfully sought election as Governor of Tlaxcala for a term from 1993 to 1999.[1] During his term, United States president Bill Clinton visited the state.[2]

After his term as governor expired, Álvarez Lima was invited by President Ernesto Zedillo to become Mexico's ambassador to Portugal and to assist in the crafting of a free trade agreement with Europe,[2] and he wrote columns for Milenio and El Sol de Tlaxcala and appeared regularly on local radio station Radio Huamantla.[6] He also became a station owner himself, taking control of XEQOO-XHQOO in Cancún. In 2004, Radio Pirata—then the leading radio station in Cancún—was sold to Grupo Imagen for a reported 100 million pesos.[7]

Return to the Senate and Canal Once

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In August 2017, Álvarez Lima was named one of the two MORENA Senate candidates from Tlaxcala for the 2018 election.[8] Elected on the winning Juntos Haremos Historia coalition ticket alongside Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera, Álvarez Lima was appointed to head the Radio and Television Commission and sat on four others.[1]

On January 23, 2019, López Obrador nominated Álvarez Lima to serve as the head of Canal Once,[9] marking his return to public media after a 28 years absence.[10] After Álvarez was installed in that position in March,[10] alternate senator Joel Molina Ramírez took his place in the Senate.[11] As the channel's director, he proposed deemphasizing the word "Canal" in the channel's name to emphasize its multiplatform existence and increases in the production of programming and expanded news coverage.[12]

Molina died of COVID-19 in October 2020.[11] This prompted Álvarez Lima to announce that he would resign from Canal Once and return to the Senate in the second half of November, after a new director for the television channel was appointed.[13] If Álvarez Lima had opted to remain at Canal Once, the resulting vacancy in the Senate would have triggered a special election for the seat.[14]

Álvarez Lima won re-election as one of Tlaxcala's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the National Regeneration Movement's two-name formula.[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Secretaría de Gobernación. "Perfil del legislador". Sistema de Información Legislativa. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Sánchez, Hugo (May 18, 2018). "José Antonio Álvarez Lima, con una amplia trayectoria política". Síntesis (in Spanish). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Gabriel Sosa Plata, ed. (2008). "Radio Educación, la historia reciente: testimonios y remembranzas" (PDF). SEP.
  4. ^ Fernández, José Antonio (March 10, 2019). "LLEGA José Antonio Álvarez Lima como nuevo Director General de Canal Once". RevistaPantalla. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  5. ^ Arreola Ochoa, Oralia (1991). "Cronología de la televisión mexicana" (PDF). Comunicación y Sociedad. pp. 163–172. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2014.
  6. ^ Macías Palma, Mario Alberto (June 22, 2018). "No es mi regreso a la política, nunca me fui: José Antonio Álvarez Lima". Comunicatedigital.com (in Spanish). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  7. ^ "Rueda de la fortuna". Latitud 21. November 2004. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  8. ^ Hernández, Rubén (August 22, 2017). "Ex gobernador José Antonio Álvarez Lima logra candidatura en Morena". Quadratín (in Spanish). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  9. ^ Ayala, Anylú (January 23, 2019). "Quién es José Antonio Álvarez Lima, próximo titular de Canal Once". Cultura Colectiva (in Spanish). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  10. ^ a b Moreno, Teresa (March 5, 2019). "José Antonio Álvarez Lima, nuevo director de Canal Once". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  11. ^ a b Figueroa, Héctor (October 24, 2020). "Fallece primer senador de Covid-19, tras brote en el Senado". Excélsior (in Spanish). Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  12. ^ Sierra, Sonia (April 6, 2019). "Hay instalaciones y personal subutilizados en Canal Once: Álvarez Lima". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  13. ^ Tenahua Ramos, Adolfo (October 28, 2020). "José Antonio Álvarez Lima dejará Canal 11 y regresará al Senado" [José Antonio Álvarez Lima will leave Canal 11 and return to the Senate]. Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  14. ^ Xantomila, Gabriel (October 27, 2020). "Elección extraordinaria, si director de Canal Once no regresa al Senado". El Sol de México. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  15. ^ "Elecciones 2024: Candidatas y candidatos". Instituto Nacional Electoral. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  16. ^ "Senadurías: Tlaxcala". Cómputos Distritales 2024. INE. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
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