Abelardo Escobar Prieto (19 January 1938 – 11 February 2019) was a Mexican politician and cabinet minister who served as
Minister of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (then the Ministry of Agrarian Reform) from April 2006 to December 2012 under the administrations of presidents
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...
and
Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 ...
.
Life
Escobar was born in
Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua and was a member of the
National Action Party (PAN). During his extensive academic, professional and political career, he was
Director General of his
alma mater for three consecutive years until 1976.
He served as ESAHE representative of the Constituent Assembly of the Mexican
Association of Agricultural Higher Education, which he directed in 1976.
He was Secretary of the Municipality of Juárez, and Federal Delegate of Proportional Representation of the 2nd Circumscription in the 58th Session, where he formed part of the Budget and Public Account, Finance and Public Credit, and Rural Development Commissions, of which he was secretary, and also, for a few months, of the Special Livestock Commission.
At the end of his period as delegate, he was appointed Director in Chief of the National Agrarian Register.
On April 24, 2006, President
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...
appointed Abelardo Escobar Prieto Agrarian Reform Secretary.
On February 11, 2019 Escobar Prieto died in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México of kidney failure.
References
External links
The official website of National Action Party (Mexico)
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2019 deaths
People from Ciudad Juárez
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
1938 births