Susete Hernández Niño

Spiritual Leader of the Nation Susete Hernández Niño
President Hernández Niño during an event in the Palacio Nacional. 1964.
61st President of Gran Rugido
In office 17 December 1962 (1962-12-17) – 17 December 1970 (1970-12-17)
Prime Minister	Abelardo Hernández (1962-1967) Vacant (1967-1970)
Preceded by	Óscar Vela Cantú
Succeeded by	Rafael Alemán Valades (De facto) Luis Carlos Arreola (De iure)
1st President of the Provisional Government of Gran Rugido in Isla Roca Roja
In office May 6, 1968 – September 19, 1970
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Minister of Equality
In office May 10, 1957 – October 12, 1962
Preceded by	Compostela de Ángeles
Succeeded by	Secretary dissolved
Personal details
Born	(1931-02-14)14 February 1931 San Jorge Xayacatlán, Gran Rugido
Political party	Unión Democratica Rugidoense
Spouse(s)	Abelardo Hernández Niño (m. 1955; death 1967) Miguel Angel Gonzalez (m. 1970)
Relatives	Esperanza Hernández Niño (daughter) Fernanda Hernández Alanis (granddaughther)
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Gran Rugido

Susete Hernandéz Niño (née Díaz) (b. 14 February 1931) is an Rugidoense former politician who served as President of Gran Rugido from 1962 to 1970, briefly deposed from power by the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional in 1968. She holds the distinction of having been the first woman to have had the title of "President" of her nation, as opposed to long standing tradition of female prime ministers that have been elected by presidents ever since the 1930s.

As president, she nationalized electric companies, created the National Commission for Free Textbooks (1963), reformed the education system, and opened important museums such as the Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Anthropology. While impopular due to the growing leftist rebellion, she maintained and enforced her government even through it led to acts of repression the leftists took advantage of, such as the 1964 Railroad Strike and the Rugidoense Student Movement of 1967. While on office, the Gran Rugidoense Civil War began when generals within the army deposed her from power.

Her last two years of administration are mostly overshadowed due to her actions during the conflict that led to her redemption on popular image by the Rugidoans that embraced her as "Heroine of the Nation" and subsequently "Spiritual Leader of the Nation". After she leaved the office, she decided to retire from politics and currently lives in Santiago de Lujambio. Despite acts of repression in her government and during crossing civil war, Hernández Niño is still one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century.

Her presidency is considered to be the end of the Rugidoense Political Crisis that was still ongoing ever since the end of the Rugidoense Revolution.

After the death of Emilio Larrazábal Torres on 3 March 2020, Susete is the oldest former living Rugidoense president.

Early life

Susete Hernandéz Díaz was born in Laurua, Gran Rugido, daughter of Juana Olguín Díaz and Mariano Martínez Kramer. Her family moved out of San Jorge after her father's death when Susete was 3 years old. While the destination city remains unclear, Susete claims that the family moved to either Santiago de Lujambio or to Ixchel as she quotes:

I remember seeing beach when I started walking. [...] My first steps were erased by the cold water and I had a brief panic to swept away by the ocean.

While she dropped of high school after eighth grade due to economical problems at home, she eventually took the "High School In One Exam" program and entered the NAUGR Faculty of Political Sciences and Law and Order in 1949. In university, she became a delegate and student leader of the anti-re-electionist campaign of former Minister of Education Marcelo Caballero, who ran in opposition to Abelardo Portes Gil, handpicked by former President Martín Falcón. Rodríguez had founded the Partido Revolucionario Rugiodense (PRR) in the wake of the ''La Violencia'' After Caballero's defeat, she shifted her alleigiance to the center party Unión Democratica Rugidoense, led by Aristóteles Vallejo Garamendi.

Political Carrer

At age 24, she was the youngest member of the UDR. She served as the private secretary of Aristóteles Vallejo himself. She filled a number of bureaucratic positions from then until 1957, when she met Compostela de Ángeles. Ángeles helped her into a position as the Minster of Equality (a position created by Óscar Vela Cantú) after Ángeles resigned the postition to join the embassy of Gran Rugido in Gavrilia. Hernandez Díaz became a senator of the Federal District in 1958, while at the same time keeping her postion as Minister of Equality. She organized the premptive works of the presidential campaign of UDR candidate Gerardo Chavéz and he selected her as Prime Minister of the Nation if he was elected. However, Chavéz was killed in a traffic accident and Susete was appointed as the new presidential candidate. Against the then dominant party of Gran Rugido, Susete won by a narrow margin, beign not only the first female president of her nation, but also the first candidate of an external party that wasn't from Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) to win the election. She appointed as Prime Minister her husband, Abelardo Hernández.

The convoluted election was deemed “fraudulent” by the left-wing organizations and parties, further escalating political polarization.

Presidency

Hernández Niño assumed the presidency on 17 December 1962 at the Palacio del Gobierno. There, she took the oath before the Congress of the Union presided over by Gustavo Martínez Domínguez. Former president Óscar Vela Cantú turned over the presidential sash, and Hernández Niño delivered his inaugural address.