Juan José Sabines Guerrero (born August 20, 1968) is a Mexican politician, son of the former

Governor of Chiapas The governor of Chiapas is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The state constitution stipulates a term of 6 years, to which governors can only be elected once. It also specifies the qualifications for becoming governor: a Mexica ...

Juan Sabines Gutiérrez ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

and nephew of the writer

Jaime Sabines Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his w ...

. Until, 2006 he was member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI) that carried him to be Municipal President of

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servi ...

, but renounced his membership to the PRI after the party denied him the chance to be a candidate for governor and asked him to finish his term as municipal president. He then became a candidate of the

Coalition for the Good of All The Coalition for the Good of All ( es, Coalición por el Bien de Todos) was a left-wing coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Convergence and the Labor Party (PT) to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a candid ...

, composed by the parties PRD, PT and

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. He was consul of Mexico in

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from June 2015 to December 2018. He studied Political Sciences and Public Administration at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University ( es, Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'') is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican provi ...

, as well as a Diploma in Protection Within the Framework of Consular Diplomacy at Instituto Matias Romero, a Seminar in Update Finance at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and studies in Foreign Affairs at

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

Achievements

Against poverty

* As governor, Chiapas left the first place in extreme poverty to become the 3rd state in the country, whereas 72,000 people came out of extreme poverty.

Environment

* Opened the first

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plant in Mexico, as well as the first line of public transportation with biodiesel in the country, used as transportation for all Heads of State and Ambassadors in the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

Climate Change Conference (

COP 16 The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. The conference is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework ...

) in Cancun, Mexico, in 2010. * Achieved the 1st ever commercial flight with Bioturbosina (airplane fuel with bio-diesel), made with Jatropha Curcas Tree, from Mexico City to Tuxtla Gutierrez in 2011.

Sustainable development

* Invented and founded in Chiapas the first ever "Ciudad Rural Sustentable" (Sustainable Rural City), based on the United Nations

Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millenniu ...

, in 2009, called "Nuevo Juan del Grijalva". There were 4 total Sustainable Rural Cities founded during his Government in Chiapas. * Invented the program "Reconversion Productiva", to change the clearing, lumbering and burning practices in Chiapas, in order to harvest fruit trees for the indigenan mountain habitats. Such program reduced forest fires, reforested trees, produced foods and improved their income.

Civil protection

* Founded the first disaster protection school, for prevention of hurricanes, slides and earthquakes. It is located in the old airport of

Ocozocoautla Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, colloquially Coita, is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is located in the western part of the state, 24 km west of Tuxtla Gutierrez covering parts of the Depresión Central (Central Depress ...

, Chiapas.

Education

* Opened 14 university campuses while governor of Chiapas.

Diplomacy

* As consul, for 3 years he, organized the Sheriff Academy for Crime Prevention in Spanish at the Consulate of Mexico in

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with an attendance of over 300 people from 7 different countries. * Helped in the agreement of

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and

Isla Mujeres Isla Mujeres (, Spanish language, Spanish for "Women Island" (formally “Isla de Mujeres”) is an island where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet, about off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is ap ...

, Mexico of being sister cities.

External links

Chiapas State Government website

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