Oscar Ornelas

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Oscar Ornelas Küchle a Mexican lawyer and politician, member of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and governor of Chihuahua from 1980 to 1985. Oscar Ornelas was also a Magistrate (associate justice) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Director of the Faculty of Law and Rector of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACh). In 1973, he was elected as the mayor of the city of Chihuahua. In 1980, he was elected to be the Governor of Chihuahua. In 1985, a conflict in the election of the Rector of the Independent University of Chihuahua degenerated in a political confrontation that occurred in which led to his downfall as governor. The following year, one of the main opponents to him, was Fidel Velázquez Sánchez. Although, Oscar Ornelas lost the support of his party and was forced to resign to the state government on September 19, 1985.