Carlos Armando Biebrich

Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres (19 November 1939 – 14 January 2021) was a Mexican lawyer and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Sonora from 1973 to 1975.

Carlos Armando Biebrich
Governor of Sonora
In office 13 September 1973 – 25 October 1975
Preceded by	Faustino Félix Serna
Succeeded by	Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Sonora's 4th district
In office 1 September 1967 – 31 August 1970
Preceded by	Rodolfo Velázquez Grijalva
Succeeded by	Javier Bours Almada
Personal details
Born	(1939-11-19)19 November 1939[1] Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mexico
Died	14 January 2021(2021-01-14) (aged 81)[1] Hermosillo
Political party	PRI
Profession	Lawyer and politician

Biography

Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres was born on 19 November 1939 in Sahuaripa, Sonora.^[1]

Before he turned 30, Biebrich Torres was subsecretary of the Secretariat of the Interior under President Luis Echeverría Álvarez.^[1]

Biebrich served as Governor of Sonora from 1973 to 1975. In October 1975 a group of Yaqui farmers took over some private property that they said had been unfairly taken from them. Governor Biebrich ordered the violent expulsion of the farmers, and several died. Biebrich was forced to resign; the incident was investigated and he was exonerated of any wrongdoing. President Echeverría expropriated the land at the end of his term and turned it over to the Yaqui farmers.^[1]

He also served as a deputy in the XLVII (1964–1967) and LX (2006–2009) Legislatures of the Mexican Congress, representing Sonora.^[2]

In 2002 he was part of the PRI Executive Committee, under the leadership of Roberto Madrazo Pintado.^[1]

Biebrich died of COVID-19 in Hermosillo on 14 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[1]