Fabián Ríos (politician)

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Fabián Roberto Ríos (8 February 1964 – 3 October 2022) was an Argentine politician from Corrientes. He was an electrical engineer who studied at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) and became involved with the Peronist Youth, eventually serving as president of his faculty’s student union.

Ríos held several public roles: he worked in the provincial energy department (1987–1993), was an assistant to Justicialist deputies and then to Justicialist senators in the national Congress, and was elected to the Corrientes provincial legislature in 1999 (re-elected in 2001). He served as a National Senator for Corrientes from 2003 to 2009, joining the Front for Victory and chairing the Budget and Treasury Committee in 2008. In 2009 he ran for governor of Corrientes but finished third. After leaving the Senate, he was a director of Banco de la Nación Argentina. He was elected National Deputy in 2011 and served as mayor (intendente) of Corrientes from 10 December 2013 to 10 December 2017, between predecessors Carlos Espínola and successor Eduardo Tassano.

Ríos died on 3 October 2022 at the age of 58.