Partido Acción Nacional

Partido Acción Nacional is named as the party of Sonora’s governor when the narrative identifies 1993 as the year in which the killings of women began to be counted in the state. The reference situates the violence within an existing political administration, but does not attribute the killings to the party or describe its policies or actions concerning them.

Identification and Political Context

The party appears in connection with Governor Jose Andres Briceno, identified as governing Sonora under Partido Acción Nacional. The same passage names Santa Teresa Mayor Jose Refugio de las Heras as a member of Partido Revolucionario Institucional. This juxtaposition establishes the affiliations of state and municipal leaders without describing a political dispute between them.

The 1993 Killings and Official Response

The reference comes as the narrative closes its account of 1993, a year marked by the beginning of the counted sequence of killings of women in Sonora. The text notes that whether the deaths were related remained unproved. It characterizes both the governor and mayor as decent and upright men, prepared to do what was right and face unpleasantness; this is the narrator’s framing, not evidence of a specific party program or intervention.

Limits of the Party’s Role

Elsewhere, the account documents police handling of individual deaths, including identification procedures and autopsies, as well as the discovery of a woman’s body at a dump and its subsequent use for medical-school study. Those details establish a broader setting of institutional investigation and unequal treatment of victims, but the cited passages do not connect Partido Acción Nacional to those particular actions. The party’s documented role here is therefore contextual: it identifies the state government during the period when the killings began to be recorded, while responsibility for the violence and the effectiveness of the response remain unresolved.