José Agustín Olachea Avilés (September 3, 1890 – April 13, 1974) was a Mexican general[1] who supported Lázaro Cárdenas for president.

[2] 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.

[3] Later, Olachea Avilés acted as Secretary of Defense under Adolfo López Mateos.

While still a young captain in the Mexican Armed Forces, Olachea Avilés had married 16-year-old Ana María Borbón Yañez (1898-1982) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, with whom he had children.