The Municipality of Nogales is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico.[1] The name Nogales is the Spanish term of "walnut trees."
Municipality of Nogales | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of the Municipality of Nogales in Sonora. | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Sonora |
| County seat | Nogales |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,675 km2 (647 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 220,292 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Time Zone) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time used year round, Mountain Daylight Time is not used.) |
Geography edit
The northern boundary of the Municipality is located along the U.S.—Mexico border.
The county seat of the Municipality is the City of Nogales. The city is abutted on its north by the city of Nogales, Arizona, United States.
History edit
The independent Nogales Municipality, which included the town of Nogales, was established on July 11, 1884.[2] The Nogales Municipality covers an area of 1,675 km2. Nogales was declared a city within the Municipality on January 1, 1920.
Escobarista Rebellion edit
Early in March 1929, the Escobarista Rebellion exploded in Nogales, sponsored by Obregonistas, supporters of Mexican president Álvaro Obregón, who had been assassinated on July 17, 1928. General Manuel Aguirre, commanding the rebellious 64th Regiment, took power without firing a shot, causing federales from Naco to send a daily airplane to attack the rebels. It dropped a few bombs over Nogales without doing any damage, while the rebels fought back with machine guns from the roofs without doing any damage to the airplane. There was only one casualty, a woman who was scared by a bomb explosion and had a heart attack. That same month, a hooded man appeared at night driving a tank on Morley Street on the U.S. side, then entered Mexico to help the federales in Naco. It seems that the tank had been bought in 1927 for fighting the Yaquis, but U.S. officials prohibited it from leaving the U.S., and it had been kept in a warehouse in Nogales, Arizona.[3]
Government edit
The Nogales Municipality was governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1931 until the 2006 elections, when power shifted to the National Action Party (PAN). After more than seven decades of being in power, the .svg){kind=logo}
PRI was ousted by .svg){kind=logo}
PAN when long-time businessman and philanthropist Marco Antonio Martínez Dabdoub ran for the presidency of Nogales, and gained access to the municipal government after having won by 30,826 votes against 23,892 of his PRI opponent.[4]
The body of Cecilia Yépiz Reyna, former Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology, was found in a shallow grave near the border on March 6, 2021, after a three-month search. Her brother accused municipal president Jesús Pujol Irastorza (.png){kind=small}
MORENA), of the kidnapping and murder.[5]
Municipal presidents edit
| Term | Municipal president | Political party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-1913[6] | Fernando F. Rodríguez | ||
| 1913-1914 | Antonio Varela | ||
| 1916-1917 | Astolfo R. Cárdenas | ||
| 1917-1918 | Félix B. Peñaloza | ||
| 1918-1919 | Astolfo R. Cárdenas | ||
| 1919-1920 | Alberto Figueroa | ||
| 1920-1921 | Alejandro Villaseñor | ||
| 1921-1922 | Francisco V. Ramos | ||
| 1922-1923 | Francisco A. Casanova | ||
| 1923-1924 | Walterio Pesqueira | ||
| 1924-1925 | Jesús E. Maytorena | ||
| 1925 | Jesús Siqueiros | Acting municipal president | |
| 1925-1926 | Fernando E. Priego | ||
| 1926 | Guillermo Mascareñas | Acting municipal president | |
| 1926-1927 | Carlos Revilla | ||
| 1927 | Apolonio L. Castro | Acting municipal president | |
| 1927-1929 | Macedonio H. Jiménez | ||
| 1929-1930 | ? | ||
| 1931-1932 | Eduardo L. Soto | PNR  | |
| 1932-1933 | José S. Elías | PNR | |
| 1933-1935 | Rafael E. Ruiz | PNR | |
| 1935-1937 | Enrique Aguayo | PNR | |
| 1937-1939 | Gustavo Escobosa | PNR | |
| 1939 | Manuel Mascareñas, Jr. | PRM  | |
| 1939-1941 | Lauro Larios | PRM | |
| 1941-1943 | Anacleto F. Olmos | PRM | |
| 1943-1946 | Luis R. Fernández | PRM | |
| 1946-1949 | Miguel F. Vázquez | PRI | |
| 1949-1952 | Gonzalo Guerrero Almada | PRI | |
| 1952-1953 | Víctor M. Ruiz Fimbres | PRI | |
| 1953-1955 | Ernesto V. Félix | PRI | |
| 1955-1958 | Miguel Amador Torres | PRI | |
| 1958-1961 | Otilio H. Garavito | PRI | |
| 1961-1964 | Jesús Francisco Cano | PRI | |
| 1964-1967 | Ramiro Corona Godoy | PRI | |
| 1967-1970 | Leopoldo Elías Romero | PRI | |
| 1970-1973 | Octavio García García | PRI | |
| 1973-1974 | Ricardo Silva Hurtado | PRI | |
| 1974-1976 | Enrique Moralla Valdez | PRI | |
| 1976 | Jesús Retes Vásquez | PRI | Acting municipal president |
| 1976-1979 | Héctor Monroy Rivera | PRI | |
| 1979-1982 | Alejandro Silva Hurtado | PRI | |
| 1982-1985 | Enrique Moralla Valdez | PRI | |
| 1985-1988 | César José Dabdoub Chávez | PRI | |
| 1988-1991 | Leobardo Gil Torres | PRI | |
| 1991-1994 | Héctor Mayer Soto | PRI | |
| 1994-1997 | Abraham Faruk Zaied Dabdoub | PRI | |
| 1997-2000 | Wenceslao Cota Montoya | PRI | |
| 2000-2003 | Abraham Faruk Zaied Dabdoub | PRI | |
| 2003-2006 | Lorenzo Antonio de la Fuente Manríquez | PRI | |
| 2006-2009 | Marco Antonio Martínez Dabdoub | PAN | |
| 2009-2012 | José Ángel Hernández Barajas | PAN | |
| 2012-2015 | Ramón Guzmán Muñoz | PRI PVEM .svg){kind=small} | |
| 2015-2018 | David Cuauhtémoc Galindo Delgado | PAN | |
| 2018-2021 | Jesús Antonio Pujol Irastorza | PT .svg){kind=logo} Morena .svg){kind=logo} PES .svg){kind=small} | Coalition "Together We Will Make History" |
| 2021- | Juan Francisco Gim Nogales | Morena |
Assassination of a former Nogales official edit
On 5 January 2021, civil engineer Cecilia Yépiz Reyna, former secretary of Infrastructure, Urban Development and Ecology of the City of Nogales, disappeared.[7] Later, on 7 March, her body was found: Yépiz had been clandestinely buried in a grave located on a site located 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) Southwest of the Mexico International Highway 15, kilometer 249 of the Nogales-Ímuris section.[8] On 18 May, 2021, the alleged perpetrator, Fernando "N", was arrested in the city of San Luis Potosí transferred first to Hermosillo, and then to Nogales.[9]
Population edit
The 2005 census the official population of the Nogales Municipality was 193,517. At the latest census in 2010, the official numbers were 220,292 for the Municipality.
The city and the municipality both rank third in the state in population, after Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregón. The municipality includes many outlying but small rural communities. The only other localities with over 1,000 inhabitants are La Mesa (2,996) 31°09′35″N 110°58′28″W / 31.15972°N 110.97444°W and Centro de Readaptación Social Nuevo (2,203) 31°11′04″N 110°58′04″W / 31.18444°N 110.96778°W. Nogales is served by Nogales International Airport.
The population growth is in part due to the influx of industry that has come since the opening of the maquiladora industry through the National Industrialization Program, decades before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Manufacturing now accounts for 55% of the city's gross domestic product, and services are growing as well, most of this caused by the growing jobs in the city.
Nogales is known for its recent enormous population growth which covers the hills along the central narrow north-south valley. Dispersed among the houses, the visitor will find a mixture of factories, stores, etc. In 2006, the southern half of the city experienced a modern urbanization development including shopping malls, wide avenues, and modern housing conglomerations.
Economy edit
The primary commercial artery is Mexico Federal Highway 15, which links the state with the U.S. as well as major cities in Mexico.
Tourism edit
Due to its location, Nogales is one of the most important ports of entry for the U.S. The downtown area used to have a large number of bars, strip clubs, hotels, restaurants, as well as curio stores, which sold a large variety of artesanias (handicrafts, leather art, handmade flowers, clothes) brought from the deeper central and southern states of Mexico. However, now downtown Nogales has forgotten those activities, due to two main causes: the recent violence in Mexico, and the barriers imposed by the US Government after September 11, 2001.[10]
Manufacturing edit
Maquiladoras, or manufacturing plants, employ a large percentage of the population. Nogales' proximity to the U.S. and the abundance of inexpensive labor make it an efficient location for foreign companies to have manufacturing and assembly operations. Some of the companies that have established maquiladoras in Nogales include: Otis Elevator, The Chamberlain Group, Walbro, and Philips Avent.
- Production and export
Approximately 92 establishments produce foreign exports. Sixty-five of these establishments are located in seven industrial parks, which employ approximately 25,400 workers, around 50 percent of the total employed population of the municipality.[11] Also important to the economy is livestock for both foreign export and cattle breeding.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "-". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
- ^ date of the publication of Law No. 29, which had been signed the previous day by the then Governor of Sonora, Luis Emeterio Torres.
- ^ Municipio de Nogales. "La rebellion escobarista". Archived from the original on 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
- ^ "Consejo Estatal Electoral de Sonora. Cómputo Global en Ayuntamientos, 2006" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Gómez Lima, Cristina (March 7, 2021). "Localizan sin vida a Cecilia Yépiz, ex funcionaria de Nogales". jornada.com.mx (in Spanish). La Jornada. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Estado de Sonora. Nogales" (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "Buscarán que Interpol y la DEA investiguen la desaparición de exfuncionaria de Nogales". El Universal (in Spanish). 15 February 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
- ^ "Tras dos meses de búsqueda, hallan cuerpo de Cecilia Yépiz, ex funcionaria de Nogales". Milenio (in Spanish). 7 March 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
- ^ "Vinculan a proceso al sujeto que ejecutó a ex funcionaria de Nogales". Radar Sonora (in Spanish). 24 May 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
- ^ City of Nogales. "Municipio de Nogales Official Site". Archived from the original on 2007-05-04. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
- ^ City of Nogales. "Municipio de Nogales Official Site". Archived from the original on 2007-05-04. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
- Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
External links edit
- Nogales, Ayuntamiento Digital (Official Website of Nogales, Sonora) (in Spanish)
- Everything you want to know about Nogales - Bilingual