Eugenio Méndez Docurro (April 17, 1923 – August 23, 2015) was a Mexican

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and politician. He served as the Secretary of Communications and Transportation from 1970 to 1976 during the administration of former

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. He also served as the director of the

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(IPN) from 1959 until 1962, as well as the first director of the

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(CONACYT) upon its creation on December 29, 1970. Méndez Docurro was born in

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in 1923. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica (ESIME). He received a Masters of Science from

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and the electronics laboratory at the

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. He died in

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on August 23, 2015, at the age of 92.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendez, Eugenio 1923 births 2015 deaths Mexican Secretaries of Communications and Transportation Mexican engineers Instituto Politécnico Nacional faculty Harvard University alumni University of Paris alumni Politicians from Veracruz

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