 In Mexico, "governor" refers to the elected chief and head of each of the nation's thirty one Free and Sovereign States with the official Spanish title being "Gobernador".Mexican governors are directly elected by the citizens of each state for a six-year term and cannot be re-elected.Many of the South American republics (such as Chile and Argentina) have provinces or states run by elected governors, with offices similar in nature to U.S. state governors.