Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores (8 May 1935 — 6 March 2017) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President

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(1982–1986), as ambassador to

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(1991–1994) and the

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(1995–1997), and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Biography

Silva Herzog was born as Jesús Silva y Flores in

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to economic historian

Jesús Silva Herzog Jesús Silva Herzog (14 November 1892 – 13 March 1985) was a Mexican economist and historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution and a member of The National College. He received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1962. His s ...

and Josefina Flores Villarreal. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the

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(UNAM, 1959) and a master's degree in the same discipline from

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(1962). He taught several courses in Economics at UNAM (1963–1969) and (1964–1969); worked as an economist for the

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(1962–1963) and as director-general of the National Institute of Housing (INFONAVIT, 1972–1976) before joining the Bank of Mexico as director-general (1977–1978) and serving as undersecretary of Finance in the cabinet of José López Portillo (1979–1982). In 2000, he lost Mexico City's

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election to Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Silva Herzog died on March 6, 2017, at the age of 81.

Personal life

He was married to María Teresa Márquez Diez-Canedo and is the father of three children: María Teresa, Eugenia and

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