2008 In Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico. Incumbents Federal government * President: Felipe Calderón * Interior Secretary (SEGOB) **Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16 **Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office) ** Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa * Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez * Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón * Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL) **Beatriz Zavala, until December 9 **Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada * Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova * Secretary of Public Security (SSP): G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake kills over 87,000; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks;a line of detritus in a backyard made during the December, 2008 resulting from the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill ; Poster in Pristina celebrating the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, Independence of Kosovo from Serbia., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Subprime mortgage crisis rect 200 0 400 200 Cyclone Nargis rect 400 0 600 200 2008 Summer Olympics rect 0 200 300 400 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence rect 300 200 600 400 2008 Sichuan earthquake rect 0 400 200 600 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill rect 200 400 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza (20 September 1942 – 4 November 2020) was an admiral in the Mexican Navy. Career Born in Veracruz, Veracruz, Saynez enrolled in the Navy on 22 January 1959 and graduated as a cadet of the Heroic Naval Academy and in 1964 was promoted to midshipman Body. He attended the Naval Studies Center of Mexico (CESNAV) where he performed during the Command and General Staff Diploma, obtaining the latter first with an average of 92.67, also well attended Higher Command and National Mexican Security and the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, DC, conducted the course Defense Superior Continental. Admiral Saynez served as Secretary of Navy (SEMAR) under President Felipe Calderón () from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Genaro García Luna
Genaro García Luna (born July 10, 1968) is a former Mexican government official and engineer. He served as Secretary of Public Security in the federal cabinet of Felipe Calderón. Since his term working for the Mexican government, García Luna has worked as a consultant and businessman evaluating the social, political and financial economics of Mexico and Latin America. He is a partner in the company GLAC, which provides an index to evaluate risk and security conditions. The GLAC index is published in ''El Heraldo de México'' and ''El Financiero''. It is used by the business community to evaluate the risk and security conditions for different states and cities in Mexico. García Luna was included in a list of the " 10 most corrupt Mexicans" published by ''Forbes'' in 2013. He broke a self-imposed silence in a letter to Steve Forbes that his inclusion in the list was based on lies and that it lacked journalistic integrity. He is the author of ''Contra el crimen: ¿Por qué ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Secretariat Of Public Security
The Mexican Secretariat of Public Security or Secretariat of Public Safety, also known as Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Public Safety ( es, Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, ''SSP''), was the federal ministry of the Mexican Executive CabinetOrganic Law of the Federal Public Administration, Article 26 that aimed to preserve freedom, order, and public peace and safeguard the integrity and rights of the people. The Assistant Attorney General uses the Powers of the Union to prevent the commission of crimes, develop public security policies of the Federal Executive, propose policies on crime, administer the federal prison system, and administer justice to juvenile offenders based on the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration and other federal laws, regulations, decrees, agreements, and orders of the President of the Republic. It had its headquarters in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City. President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on November 15, 2012, that he will elimi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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José Ángel Córdova
José Ángel Córdova Villalobos (born 19 August 1953, in Mexico) is a Mexican politician who served as Secretary of Health and Secretary of Public Education during Felipe Calderón administration. Córdova Villalobos obtained a medical degree, and an MA in Public Administration, a Specialty in State and Municipal Public Administration and an MA in Administration from the University of Guanajuato, among other qualifications. He was a delegate in the parliamentary group in the 59th Session of the Mexican Congress (2003-2006), during which he directed the Health Commission. Career * President of the Ministers’ Club for EPODE International Network (EIN), the world's largest obesity-prevention network, 2013. * Head of the Medical Education Division of the Hospital Ángeles and full-time professor at the Medicine Faculty of the University of Guanajuato (since 2002). * President of the General Council of the Electoral Institute of the State of Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officiall ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Secretary Of Health (Mexico)
The Secretariat of Health ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Salud'') is the government department in charge of all social health services in Mexico, and an integral part of the Mexican health system. The Secretary of Health is a member of the Executive Cabinet and is appointed at the discretion of the President of the Republic. In recent years, the Secretary of Health has played a more restricted role, as many of its functions have been transferred to the corresponding institutions of the individual Mexican States. List of recent Secretaries of Health The sociologist Asa Cristina Laurell is a former Undersecretary of Integration and Development at the Secretariat. See also Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition References External links *http://salud_2013.salud.gob.mx/ (in Spanish)Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk(in Spanish) {{Authority control Mexico, Secretariat of Health Health, Secretariat of * 1938 establishment ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada (born 11 April 1956 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who served as Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón. He is also a former Municipal President of Uruapan, Michoacán. Elvira Quesada graduated with a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received a master's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Cranfield Institute of Technology (nowadays Cranfield University) in Bedfordshire, England. He used to serve in the military with Maj. Gen. Juan Felipe. He has served as president of the Barranca del Cupatitzio National Park Trust (1997–98), as a Delegate of the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection in Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Secretariat Of The Environment And Natural Resources
The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (in Spanish: ''Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT'') is Mexico's environment ministry. Its head, the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, is a member of the federal executive cabinet and is appointed by the President of Mexico. In September 2020, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed María Luisa Albores González as Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, the third person to occupy the post since López Obrador became President less than two years earlier in December 2018. The Secretariat is charged with the mission of protecting, restoring, and conserving the ecosystems, natural resources, assets and environmental services of Mexico with the goal of fostering sustainable development. Functions The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of México is the Secretary of State to which, according to Law of Federal Public Administration in its Article 3 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres (born July 18, 1946 in Durango) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the . Elizondo Torres holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Political career Elizondo has been a member of the PAN since the early 1980s. In 1983 he was elected municipal president (mayor) of Victoria de Durango. In 1986 and again in 1992 he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Durango. Elizondo has served in both houses of the Mexican Congress; from 1988 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1997 he served in the lower house, then from 1997 to 2000 he served in the Senate of Mexico during the LVII Legislature. President Vicente Fox designated Elizondo first as presidential spokesperson and then, on July 29, 2003 as Secretary of Tourism. Mexican President elect Felipe Calderón re-designated Elizondo as Secretary of Tourism for his Administration. He left this position in 2010. In 2009 he was responsible for laun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Secretary Of Tourism (Mexico)
The Mexican Secretary of Tourism ( es, Secretaría de Turismo, ''SECTUR'') is the government department in charge of the nation's tourism promotion and development. The Secretary is appointed by the President of the Republic and is a member of the federal executive cabinet. The department conducts the development policy for national tourist activity and promotes tourist development zones in conjunction with the states. List of secretaries * President Luis Echeverría ** (1975–1976) : Julio Hirschfeld Almada * President José López Portillo ** (1976–1980) : Guillermo Rossell de la Lama ** (1980–1982) : Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla * President Miguel de la Madrid ** (1982–1988) : Antonio Enríquez Savignac * President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ** (1988–1990) : Carlos Hank González ** (1990–1993) : Pedro Joaquín Coldwell ** (1993–1994) : Jesús Silva Herzog Flores * President Ernesto Zedillo ** (1994–1997) : Silvia Hernández Enríquez ** (1997–2000) : ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ernesto Cordero Arroyo
Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo (born 9 May 1968) is a Mexican actuary, public servant and politician affiliated with the . He has been Secretary of State on two occasions: he was Secretary of Social Development, and Finance Secretary, when he resigned to take part in the internal elections for the Presidency of Mexico for the PAN. Cordero was the President of the Mexican Senate, a role traditionally rotated amongst the three biggest parties in Congress for one-year terms, from September 2012 to August 2013, and again from September 2017 to August 2018. Personal life Family Ernesto Cordero was born in Mexico City on 9 May 1968. Son of Ernesto Cordero Galindo, a well-known professor of medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and of Graciela Arroyo, a nurse who directed for two periods the “ Escuela Nacional de Enfermeria y Obstetricia (National School of Infirmary and Obstetrics) of the UNAM. On May 16, 2006, Marta Sahagún inaugurated the Espla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beatriz Zavala
María Beatriz Zavala Peniche (born October 23, 1957, in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who has served in the lower and upper house of the Mexican Congress. In 2006 Felipe Calderón designated her as Secretary of Social Development. Personal life and education Zavala, born in Mérida, Yucatán, holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY) and studies towards a master degree in sociology from the University of Kentucky. She has been a professor of the UADY. Political career Zavala is an active member of the PAN since 1995. From 1997 to 2000 she served in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico during the LVII Legislature; from 2001 to 2003 she served as local deputy in the Congress of Yucatán; then from 2003 to 2006 she served again in the Chamber of Deputies this time during the LIX Legislature. In 2006 she won a seat in the Senate of Mexico representing Yucatán but left that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |