Alejandro Poiré Romero (; born January 15, 1971) is a Mexican politician who served as the

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in the cabinet of

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from 17 November 2011 to 1 December 2012, following the death of Francisco Blake Mora in a helicopter crash on 11 November 2011. Before his post as the Secretary of the Interior, Poiré served as spokesman of

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's national security in the

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. He is often regarded as the face and voice of Mexico's strategy against

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and

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. Moreover, Poiré has the task of telling

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—and the world—the government's strategy in the fight against the

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and organized crime in the country's drug war. He has worked in many operatives against organized crime, and he strengthened the security in Tamaulipas. He has published several studies on democratization, public opinion and political parties; in addition, he has lectured in several universities in Mexico, the United States,

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and Europe. Most of his work can be read in

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, Milenio, Milenio Semanal, Hoja por Hoja, Letras Libres, Cambio, Nexos and other newspapers.

Career

Alejandro Poiré was born in

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in 1971. He holds a bachelor's degree in

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from Mexico's Autonomous Institute of Technology, where he served as head of the department for four years, and a doctoral degree from

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. In addition, while serving as spokesman for Mexico's national security, Poiré serves as the director-general of the Ministry of Public Safety and the

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. He has also been a professor at the

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, Robert F. Kennedy and

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in Harvard University, and as director of the

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and

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, where he helped the realization of the Primera Encuesta Nacional de Cultura Política y Prácticas Ciudadanas. On 26 May 2010, Poiré was named undersecretary of the Office of Population, Migration, and Religious Affairs, and later formed part of the Federal Public Administration. In 2013, Poiré was named head of the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Públicahttp://www.itesm.mx/wps/wcm/connect/snc/portal+informativo/por+tema/politica/egtp_alejandropoire22oct14 . and the Instituto de Administración Pública of the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Center.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Poire Romero, Alejandro Living people People of the Mexican Drug War Harvard University alumni Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni 1971 births Mexican Secretaries of the Interior Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty