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2006 In Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2006 in Mexico. Incumbents Federal government President * President **Vicente Fox , until November 30 **Felipe Calderón , starting December 1 Cabinet * Interior Secretary (SEGOB) **Santiago Creel, until November 30 ** Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, starting December 1 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) ** Luis Ernesto Derbez, until November 30 **Patricia Espinosa, starting December 1 * Communications Secretary (SCT) ** Pedro Cerisola, until November 30 **Luis Téllez, starting December 1 * Education Secretary (SEP) ** Reyes Tamez, until November 30 **Josefina Vázquez Mota, starting December 1 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA) **Gerardo Clemente Vega, until November 30 **Guillermo Galván Galván, starting December 1 * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR) **Marco Antonio Peyrot González, until November 30 **Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza, starting December 1 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) ** Francisco Javier Salazar Sá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany is won by Italy; Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in the Amazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet; The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake kills over 5,700 people; The IAU votes on the IAU definition of planet, definition of "planet", which demotes Pluto and other Kuiper belt objects and redefines them as "Dwarf planet, dwarf planets"., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 2006 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Twitter rect 400 0 600 200 Nintendo Wii rect 0 200 300 400 IAU definition of planet rect 300 200 600 400 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum rect 0 400 200 600 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake rect 200 400 400 600 Gol Transportes A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Clemente Vega
Gerardo Clemente R. Vega García (28 March 1940 – 22 June 2022) was a Mexican general who served from 2000 to 2006 as Minister of Defense. Biography Vega studied at the Heróico Colegio Militar., he received a bachelor's degree in administration from the ''Escuela Superior de Guerra'' and a master's degree in security and national defense from the ''Colegio de la Defensa Nacional''. He was a professor of the ''Heróico Colegio Militar'' and of the ''Escuela Superior de Guerra'' and served as Director of the ''Colegio de la Defensa Nacional'' and Rector of the ''Universidad del Ejército y la Fuerza Aérea.'' Career and education Vega held different positions in the Mexican army. As Captain he served in the ''13/o Batallón de Infantería'' in Veracruz and in the ''15/o Regimiento de Caballería'' in Guanajuato. As Major he served in Mérida, Villahermosa, Chihuahua and Quintana Roo. He also served as the Mexican military attaché in the former Soviet Union, Poland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
José Luis Luege Tamargo
José Luis Luege Tamargo (born November 9, 1953, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican politician and bureaucrat. Luege holds a degree in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at UNAM, where he taught for five years. He obtained two specialties in iron and steel processes, one at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and another at the "National Center for Iron and Steel Processes" in Madrid. He worked for 14 years in the national iron and steel industry. His career *Luege Tamargo's political career began in the early 1980s and in 1988 he was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies, representing the National Action Party in the Seventeenth Federal Electoral District of the Federal District. He participated in the Ecology, Industry, Trade and Federal District Commissions. *From 1994 to 1997, he served as Representative of the Federal District Legislative Assembly, where he headed the Commission for Urban Roads and Highway Administration. During this period, he achiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Secretariat Of Welfare (Mexico)
The Secretariat of Welfare ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Bienestar'') is the government department in charge of social development efforts in Mexico. The Secretary of Welfare is a member of the Executive Cabinet, and is appointed at the discretion of the President of the Republic. The Secretariat of Welfare aims to eliminate poverty through comprehensive, collectively responsible human development, achieve adequate levels of well-being with adjustment to government policies, and improvement through social, economic and political factors in rural and urban areas to enhance local organization, city development and housing. Between 1992 and 2018, the agency was known as the Secretariat of Social Development (''Secretaría de Desarrollo Social''), or SEDESOL. History The agency was established as the Secretariat of Public Works (''Secretaría de Obras Públicas'') in 1959. In 1976, it changed its name to the Secretariat of Human Settlements and Public Works (''Secretaría de Asentami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Lozano Alarcón
Javier Lozano Alarcón (born November 21, 1962) is a Mexican politician who served Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. He was elected as a senator to the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing Puebla. He then resigned from the PAN and worked in the campaign of presidential candidate José Antonio Meade Kuribreña. He was telecoms consultant. Lozano has served as president of the Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL). In 2007, Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon, who was under investigation for the largest drug-related cash seizure in history, accused Lozano Alarcón of forcing him to stash at least $150 million in illicit campaign funds within his Mexico City mansion. Lozano Alarcón denied the allegations.Associated Press.Mexico accuses drug suspect of blackmail ''USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuhart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz
Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party . He was the Secretary of Labor from 2005 to 2006. Education Salazar Sáenz studied chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and at the ''Universidad Iberoamericana''. He received a master's degree in administration from the ''Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí'' and a doctorate in social sciences from the University of La Salle in Mexico city. Public career During the 1980s Salazar Sáenz was an active labor leader in San Luis Potosí state. He was general secretary of the ''Unión de Asociaciones de Personal Académico de la Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí'' (1979 to 1985), general secretary of the ''Asociación Nacional de Asociaciones de Personal Académico Universitario'' (1984 to 1988) and general secretary of the ''Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Universitarios'' (1985 to 1989). Salazar Sáenz served in the Chamber of Deputie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretariat Of Labor And Social Welfare
The Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare ( es, Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social, ''STPS'') is a Federal Government Department in charge of all social health services in the Mexican Republic. The Secretary is a member of the federal executive cabinet. In addition to the legal Executive Cabinet there are other Cabinet-level administration offices that report directly to the President of the Republic, and the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare is appointed by the President of Mexico. *Supervises the implementation of the regulations in Article 123 concerning labor. *Attempts to achieve a balance between production factors, in keeping with the appropriate legal regulations. List of secretaries See also * Social Welfare in Mexico References External links Official Website of Labor and Social Welfare [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
