{{short description|Mexican army officer and politician}} {{infobox politician | name = Rogelio Flores Curiel | office = Governor of Nayarit | allegiance = 24px Mexico | rank = Major general | party = Institutional Revolutionary Party | birth_date = 1924 | death_date = 20 October 2008 | death_place = Mexico City, Mexico | birth_place = Tepic, Nayarit | branch = {{army|Mexico}} }}
'''Rogelio Flores Curiel''' (1924-2008) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as governor of the state of Nayarit, Mexico between 1976 and 1981.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Rogelio Flores Curiel|url=https://mexicana.cultura.gob.mx/en/repositorio/detalle?id=_suri:INEHRM:TransObject:5bcbda677a8a0222ef148231|access-date=2020-08-13|website=mexicana.cultura.gob.mx|language=en}}</ref>
Curiel attended Yale University and the Heroic Military Academy.
He was commander of the 13th Military Zone in Tepic and later the commander of the 15th Military Zone based in Guadalajara, Jalisco.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Inicio de labores del gobernador del estado de Nayarit, Rogelio Flores Curiel] · Biblioteca Digital de los archivos de la represión|url=https://biblioteca.archivosdelarepresion.org/s/comverdad/item/41710|access-date=2020-08-13|website=biblioteca.archivosdelarepresion.org|language=es}}</ref>
He was the chief of police in Mexico City when the Corpus-Christi Massacre (El Halconazo) took place. After this, he resigned and returned to his seat in the Senate of the Republic.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schmidt|first=Samuel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PF1VAAAAMAAJ&q=rogelio+flores+curiel|title=The Deterioration of the Mexican Presidency: The Years of Luis Echeverría|date=1991|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=978-0-8165-1235-5|language=en}}</ref> Between 1976 and 1981, Curiel served Governor of Nayarit and was accused of electoral fraud.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Camp|first=Roderic Ai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96xOHRWNMioC&q=rogelio+flores+curiel+biography&pg=PA374|title=Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition|date=2011-10-01|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-72634-5|language=en}}</ref>
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