Práxedes Giner Durán (February 15, 1893 – May 13, 1978) was a Mexican military official, politician, and member of the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
He participated in the Mexican Revolution as a part of Pancho Villa's famed División del Norte and became an icon in his home state.
[2] He represented Chihuahua's sixth district in the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1930[3] and was the governor of Chihuahua from 1962 until 1968.
In 1965, while serving as governor, he allegedly ordered the massacre of a group of farmers and teachers who were protesting for land reform in the town of Ciudad Madera, and ordered that the bodies be buried in a mass grave.
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