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Práxedes Giner Durán (February 15, 1893 – May 13, 1978) was a Mexican military official, politician, and member of the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He participated in the Mexican Revolution as a part of Pancho Villa's famed División del Norte and became an icon in his home state. He represented Chihuahua's sixth district in the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1930 and was the governor of Chihuahua from 1962 until 1968.

In 1965, while serving as governor, he allegedly ordered the massacre of a group of farmers and teachers who were protesting for land reform in the town of Ciudad Madera, and ordered that the bodies be buried in a mass grave.

References

1. Rubio, Mariano (2 September 2021). "Solo 3 gobernadores en la historia de Chihuahua nacieron en Juárez". El Heraldo de Juárez (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 December 2021.
2. Ainslie, Ricardo C. (2013). The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War. University of Texas Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-292-73890-4.
3. "Legislatura 33" (PDF). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
4. Gisbert, Manuel Bayo (2024-05-08). "Opinion | Looking for the Missing People of Mexico". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-12.

• 1893 births
• 1978 deaths
• Governors of Chihuahua (state)
• Politicians from Chihuahua (state)
• Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
• Mexican military personnel
• People of the Mexican Revolution
• 20th-century Mexican politicians
• People from Camargo, Chihuahua