Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega
Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega (4 August 1928 – 16 June 1999) was a Mexican Naval officer and politician. Early life Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega was born in Jesús María, Aguascalientes, the capital city of the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes, Mexico, on August 4, 1928. (One source asserts he was born in Madrid, Spain, on that same date).) He spent his childhood in an old Hacienda called "Los Cuartos". He died at Pabellón de Arteaga, Aguascalientes in June 1999. Barberena Vega attended the municipal school of Jesús Maria and the "Sons of the Army" school in Cuernavaca Morelos. He performed his middle school as well as high school studies at the Autonomous Institute of Sciences, now called Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Barberena Vega finished high school in 1946, and in 1947, he joined the Mexico Navy. He received the degree of Geographical Engineer of the Heroic Naval Military School, graduating in 1951, earning the class' highest grades. Military career He was commissioned for various units of the Mexican Navy as a midshipman and served on the Gulf coast and in the Pacific. In January 1953, he passed his professional examination for the title of Geographer Engineer and obtained the