Juan Ignacio Torres Landa
Juan Ignacio Torres Landa García was a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He represented his party in Congress and ran twice for governor of Guanajuato. He was killed in an aviation accident in the state of San Luis Potosí.
Early life
Juan Ignacio Torres Landa was born in León, Guanajuato, on 5 July 1959, to, who served as governor of Guanajuato for the PRI in 1961–1967, and María Teresa García Sardaneta.Political career
Torres Landa joined the youth branch of the PRI in 1975.He served as the municipal president of San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, from 1983 to 1985 and in the Congress of Guanajuato from 1988 to 1991.
In the 1991 mid-terms, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies
to represent Guanajuato's 9th district during the 55th Congress.
During his term, he served as president of the Chamber of Deputies.
He was the PRI's candidate for governor of Guanajuato on two occasions:
in the 2 July 2000 election he lost to Juan Carlos Romero Hicks of the National Action Party,
and in the 1 July 2012 election he lost to the PAN's Miguel Márquez Márquez.
Death
Torres Landa died on 7 June 2013 when the Jet Ranger helicopter he was travelling on plummeted into a golf course in the city of San Luis Potosí shortly after take-off. He was 53 years old.A brother of former governor of Querétaro Mariano Palacios Alcocer was also killed in the crash.