sentences:  The 2000 general election, in which Mario Soberanes (of the Nueva Alianza party) was elected president of the Municipality of Tetela del Volcán, was the first time a citizen of Hueyapan had been elected to this position, and was also the first time a local president came from a party other than the PRI.In 2012 Javier Montes became the second municipal president of Tetela del Volcan from the community of Hueyapan.Hueyapan was devastated in the September 19, 2017 earthquake.