Fabiana Rios
| Fabiana Ríos | |
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| Governor of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and Southern Atlantic Islands | |
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In office December 10, 2007 – December 10, 2015 |
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| Lieutenant | Carlos Basanetti |
| Preceded by | Hugo Cóccaro |
| Succeeded by | Rosana Bertone |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 31, 1964 Rosario, Santa Fe |
| Political party | ARI |
| Alma mater | National University of Rosario |
| Profession | Pharmacist |
María Fabiana Ríos (born March 31, 1964 in Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentine politician of the party ARI (Afirmación para una República de Iguales, "Support for an Egalitarian Republic"). She is the governor of the province of Tierra del Fuego since December 17, 2007. She is currently one of three women governors in Argentina, the others being Lucia Corpacci of Catamarca Province and Claudia Ledesma de Zamora of Santiago del Estero.
Ríos was elected governor on June 24, 2007. She is the first woman to be elected governor of an Argentine province and the first woman governor of Tierra del Fuego Province. Prior to that she was a National Deputy.
Ríos graduated as a pharmacist from the National University of Rosario. She moved to Tierra del Fuego, a scarcely populated province on the southern end of Argentina, at the age of 23, and married Gustavo Longui, with whom she had two daughters. She occupied several important posts in the healthcare administration of the city of Río Grande.
Ríos entered politics under the mentorship of the Socialist legislator Alfredo Bravo, and started working within the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (the short-lived coalition that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency in 1999). She was elected a provincial Deputy in the legislature of Tierra del Fuego in 1999, where she served until 2003.
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