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2016 In Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2016 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels. Incumbents Federal government * President: Enrique Peña Nieto * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Claudia Ruiz Massieu * Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza * Education Secretary (SEP): Aurelio Nuño Mayer * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida * Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR) **José Antonio Meade, until September 6 ** Luis Enrique Miranda Nava, starting September 7 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Enrique de la Madrid Cordero * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Rafael Pacchiano Alamán * Secretary of Health (SALUD) **Mercedes Juan López, until February 8 **José Narro Roble ...
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President Of Mexico
The president of Mexico ( es, link=no, Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States ( es, link=no, Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Constitution of Mexico, the president heads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Mexican Armed Forces. The current president is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on 1 December 2018. The office of the president is considered to be revolutionary, in the sense that the powers of office are derived from the Revolutionary Constitution of 1917. Another legacy of the Mexican Revolution is the Constitution's ban on re-election. Mexican presidents are limited to a single six-year term, called a '' sexenio''. No one who has held the post, even on a caretaker basis, is allowed to run or serve again. The constitution and the office of the president closely follow the presidential system of go ...
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José Antonio Meade
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (; born 27 February 1969) is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister under President of Mexico, Presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto in a variety of portfolios, becoming the first Mexican official appointed to cabinet five times. He was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate in the 2018 Mexican general election, 2018 presidential election, where he placed third. Biography Meade is the son of Dionisio Meade y Garcia de Leon, Dionisio Meade and his wife Lucía, daughter of the lawyer and sculptor José Kuribreña. The Meade Kuribreña family is a Mexican family of Ireland, Irish and Lebanon, Lebanese descent. He is married to painter Juana Cuevas and they have 3 children. Education Meade has a B.S. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), a B.S. in Law from National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNA ...
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Martín Orozco Sandoval
Martín Orozco Sandoval (born 25 June 1967) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN, who served as the Governor of Aguascalientes from 2016 to 2022. From 2012 to 2016, he represented Aguascalientes in the Senate during the LXII and LXIII Legislatures. He also was the Municipal President of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes from 2005 to 2007. Life Orozco Sandoval worked as a private accountant from 1983 to 1995 and obtained his degree in accounting from the Universidad Panamericana, Bonaterra campus, in 1996. He began his career in the PAN not long after. From 1999 to 2001, he was the secretary of social development for the city of Aguascalientes, and in 2001, he left that post to become a state deputy to the LVII Legislature of Aguascalientes. There, he was the leader of the PAN parliamentary group. In 2005, he ran successfully for municipal president of Aguascalientes and served two years; at the same time, he served as president of the Association of Municipalities of ...
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Carlos Lozano De La Torre
Carlos Lozano de la Torre (born February 9, 1950) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was elected Governor of Aguascalientes List of Governors of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. {{DEFAULTSORT:Governor Of Aguascalientes * Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguas ... on July 4, 2010. Lozano was sworn into office on December 1, 2010. References 1950 births Governors of Aguascalientes Senators of the LX and LXI Legislatures of Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Living people 21st-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-senator-InstitutionalRevolutionary-stub ...
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Governor Of Aguascalientes
List of Governors of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. {{DEFAULTSORT:Governor Of Aguascalientes * Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and ... 1835 establishments in Mexico ...
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Luis Videgaray Caso
Luis Videgaray Caso (born August 10, 1968) is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018. Previously he was the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, also in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto, from 2012 to 2016. Prior to Peña Nieto's victory in the elections, Videgaray was General Coordinator of his campaign for the 2012 Mexican presidential election. On July 11, 2012, Peña Nieto announced Videgaray as the person in charge of promoting the economic reforms and the government agenda's related topics, and on September 4, he named Videgaray as co-head of the team that set policy direction for the new government that took office on December 1, 2012. In September 2016, a week after the visit of U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump to Mexico City to meet with President Peña Nieto, Videgaray resigned as finance minister. Videgaray was replaced as finance minister by José Antonio Meade Kuribreña the man Videgaray had repla ...
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Secretariat Of Finance And Public Credit
The Secretariat of the Treasury and Public Credit ( es, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, SHCP) is the finance ministry of Mexico. The Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the department, and is a member of the federal executive cabinet, appointed to the post by the President of the Republic, with the approval of the Chamber of Deputies. Recently, the institution has been promoting a financial inclusion policy and is now a member of thAlliance for Financial Inclusion This position is analogous to the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States of America or to the finance ministers of other nations. *Proposes and directs the Federal Government’s economic policy as regards finances, tax, spending, income and public debt and statistics, geography and information, in order to ensure quality, equitable, inclusive and sustained economic growth. Mexican Customs Bureau (''Administración General de Aduanas'') is part of the Mexican Tax Administration Service, the ...
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José Narro Robles
José Narro Robles (born December 5, 1948 in Saltillo, Coahuila) is a Mexican researcher, academic, and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20, 2007. After two 4-year periods leading UNAM, in February 2016, he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health. Robles has enacted as adviser for the World Health Organization, WHO and UNICEF. He has been president of the National Academy of Medicine, of which he has been a member since 1992. He has also worked as General Director of Health Services of the Mexican Federal District, Secretary-General of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Undersecretary of Migratory Services and Population at the Ministry of the Interior (''Secretaría de Gobernación'') and Undersecretary of Health at the Federal Secretariat of Health. ...
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Mercedes Juan López
Mercedes Martha Juan López (born 22 April 1943), is a Mexican doctor, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has been a federal deputy and first female Secretary of Health between 1 December 2012 and 8 February 2016. Mercedes Juan is a Surgeon graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has a specialty in rehabilitation medicine. From 1983 to 1988 she was technical secretary of the Health Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic in the government of Miguel de la Madrid, and from 1988 to 1994 she was Assistant Secretary of Regulation and Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health, holding the same Jesús Kumate Rodríguez in the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Elected federal deputy through the plurinominal way in 1997 to the LVII Legislature that concluded in 2000 and in which she was vice-coordinator of the parliamentary faction of the PRI and vice president of the board of directors, secretary of the commission of Health and Population ...
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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 ...
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Rafael Pacchiano Alamán
Rafael Pacchiano Alamán (born 4 November 1975) is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico who is the current Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Querétaro. Pacchiano Alamán was the Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT) under President Enrique Peña Nieto from August 27, 2015 to November 30, 2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United .... References 1975 births Living people Politicians from Querétaro Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians Mexican Secretaries of the Environment 21st-century Mexican politicians Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education al ...
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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 ...
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