Agustín Olachea
José Agustín Olachea Avilés was a Mexican general who supported Lázaro Cárdenas for president. During the Cárdenas years he served as Governor of the Federal North Territory of Baja California, having previously filled the same post for Baja California Sur as a member of the social-democratic Institutional Revolutionary Party. This second gubernatorial term came during a period of rising hostility toward the Chinese population in Mexicali. Later, Olachea Avilés acted as Secretary of Defense under Adolfo López Mateos.
In 1946, he was re-elected to a second, ten-year term as Governor of Baja California Sur.
While still a young captain in the Mexican Armed Forces, Olachea Avilés had married 16-year-old Ana María Borbón Yañez in Guadalajara, Jalisco, with whom he had children. He also had a relationship wit Ms. Josefina Meling, he had childrens with Josefina and he give them his last name "olachea", those kids raise in Tijuana.
He was himself, through the paternal line, a second-generation Mexican of Basque descent, and a member of an extensive family still scattered across the Baja California Peninsula and in parts of Southern California.
