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
Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...
institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the
Society of Jesus
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. In 2009, the UIA received the SEP-ANUIES Prize as the best private university in Mexico. The Ibero's flagship campus is located in the
Santa Fe district of
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
. It is ranked by
QS World University Rankings
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as 701-750 worldwide an
7in Mexico.
Its main library,
Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero, holds more than 400,000 books and journals and as of 2007 is one of the largest university libraries in the country. It also has one of the largest law libraries in Mexico.
Other institutions affiliated with, but independent from, Ibero in Mexico City are found in
Guadalajara
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,
León,
Torreón
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,
Puebla
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,
Playas de Tijuana, and
Jaltepec
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. Together, they form the
Jesuit University System
The Jesuit University System (SUJ) is a network of private universities that belong to the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus, Jesuits, who have universities around the world joined by such associations.
Universities
The system consists of s ...
, a network of Jesuit-run private universities.
History
The university was founded in 1943 by the Society of Jesus, but with the significant aid of Rodolfo Brito Foucher, the rector of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico. Brito Foucher, a lawyer and head of UNAM's law faculty before becoming rector, was of the opinion that this was not counter to the
Constitution of 1917
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's prohibition of Catholic involvement in education, since the article did not specify higher education but only primary and secondary. A key group in the founding of Ibero was former student activists from the Jesuit-directed ' (UNEC). The founding came at a time when church-state relations in Mexico had improved over the late 1920s during the
Cristero War
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and in the 1930s when the government attempted to implement education toward socialism in the Mexican universities.
Originally called Centro Cultural Universitario, Ibero grew into a full-scale university after ten years due to the patronage of the business community which donated funds for building the campus and for guaranteeing loans as the university was being established.
[Espinosa, ''Jesuit Student Groups'', p. 3.] When the
Mexican economy expanded during the 1940s to 1960s, Ibero-trained professionals who entered the private sector,
many of the former leaders of the UNEC served on the university's board of trustees. Ibero had the aim of promoting
Catholic culture
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Christian culture has i ...
and of training elites to take leading roles in Mexican society. Ibero has trained a number of successful businessmen and politicians, including the successful presidential candidate of the
National Action Party (Mexico),
Vicente Fox
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.
The Society of Jesus has from its start in the 16th century been a leader in humanistic education. When Jesuits reached
New Spain
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in 1572, their religious and educational zeal led them to create renowned teaching and research centers – such as the colleges of St. Ildefonso, Vizcainas, and St. Peter and St. Paul, to mention a few of the prestigious institutions of that time. The Ibero is part of a network of 8 Jesuit universities located in various Mexican cities which, in turn, are part of 31 Jesuit universities and colleges in Latin American and some 200 worldwide.
Campus
In 1988 Universidad Iberoamericana moved to a 48-acre (19 hectares) new campus in the Santa Fe area of Mexico City. Besides classrooms, laboratories, and workshops in physics, chemistry, photography, design, psychology, engineering, communications, architecture, and nutrition, the university houses the
Francisco Xavier Clavigero
Francisco Javier Clavijero Echegaray (sometimes ''Francesco Saverio Clavigero'') (September 9, 1731 – April 2, 1787), was a Mexican Jesuit teacher, scholar and historian. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish provinces (1767), he ...
library, the FM 90.9 radio station, and several auditoriums. Other facilities on campus include sports fields and related conveniences, a medical center, three cafeterias, an on-campus bookstore, a stationery shop, bank branches, and other university stores.
Ibero-American University Tijuana
''Ibero-American University Tijuana'' (''Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana'') in Playas de Tijuana,
Tijuana
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(US) and [< ...]
, Mexico, was founded by the
Jesuits
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in 1982. It is a part of the Mexican Jesuit University System. as one of the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México colleges.
In 1982, Universidad Iberoamericana opened its campus in Tijuana at two sites, one rented and the other on the premises of La Paz College. Later space was rented in the Civil Hospital building. At first only high school studies and degrees in architecture, graphic design, and law were offered. In 1985, the cornerstone was laid for the present building.
Departments
Today the university's Mexico City Campus is made up of 19 academic departments, which offer a total of 36 academic programs.
*Art Department
*Religious Sciences Department
*Social & Political Sciences Department
*Economics Department
*Philosophy Department
*History Department
*Literature Department
*Management & Public Accountancy Department
*Architecture Department
*Communications Department
*Law Department
*Design Department
*International Studies Department
*Physics and Math Department
*Engineering Department
*Chemical Engineering & Sciences Department
*Psychology Department
*Health Department
Faculty
*
Luis E. Miramontes
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Miramontes was born in Tepic, Nayarit ...
– Chemist, inventor of the
first oral contraceptive
*
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award f ...
– Screenwriter of ''
Amores perros
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'', ''
Babel'', ''
21 Grams'' and other films. Oscar Nominee
*
José Miguel Insulza
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– Chilean politician and
Secretary General of the Organization of American States
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According to the Charter of the Organization of American States:
Secretaries General of the OAS
Assistant ...
.
*
Jorge González Torres – Founder of the
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico
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*
Demetrio Sodi – Former congressman and senator
*
Loretta Ortíz Ahlf; researcher and the only Mexican invited as a lecturer to The Hague Academy of International Law
*
Augusto H. Álvarez
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Biography
Álvarez was student of José Villagrán García. He taught a ...
– Architect (
Torre Latinoamericana
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and
Mexico City International Airport)
*
Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz
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Barragán studied at the ITESM, and later under Paul Rudolph at Yale School of Architecture. Afterwards he worked in Italy with Giovanni Michelucci.
Amongst others, he ...
– Architect
*
Isaac Broid Zajman – Architect (
Telcel
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Building)
*
Enrique Carral Icaza – Architect (
Mexico City International Airport)
*
Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez – Architect
*
Carlos Mijares Bracho
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*
J. Francisco Serrano Cacho
José Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho (b. Mexico City, October 30, 1937) is a Mexican architect.
Biography
Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked t ...
– Architect
*
Sylvia Schmelkes – Sociologist and education researcher
* Leonardo Javier Torres Nafarrate; Sociologist researcher, specialized on
Niklas Luhmann
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Biography
Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's fa ...
's theories
*
Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea, former Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
Alumni
Its most famous alumnus is
Vicente Fox Quesada
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,
President of Mexico
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2000-2006. Other distinguished alums with high name recognition internationally are actress
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Pinault ( , ; born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela ''Teresa'' (1989–1991) as well as the ...
;
Academy Award
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-winning film maker
Alejandro González Iñárritu
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; and journalist
Jorge Ramos.
Athletics
*
Gerardo Torrado – Notable Mexican footballer
*
Yon de Luisa
Yon de Luisa Plazas (born 7 April, 1970) is the president of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) since 2018, former Vice President of Televisa Deportes and former President of Club América. He is also the Mexico bid director of the United 2026 ...
– President of the
Mexican Football Association
*
El Hijo del Santo
Jorge Ernesto Guzmán Rodríguez (born August 2, 1963) is a Mexican '' luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler and political activist, best known under the ring name, El Hijo del Santo ("The Son of the Saint"). Guzmán is the you ...
–
professional wrestler
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Business
*Gustavo Cantu Duran - chairman and CEO Seguros Monterrey New York Life
*Germán Ahumada Russek – president and CEO of Consorcio ARA
*
Carlos Alazraki – president and CEO of the award-winning Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency
*
Joaquin Avila – managing partner at EMX Capital, former fund head at
Carlyle Group
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Mexico, former managing director and Head of Latin America at
Lehman Brothers
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*
Emilio Azcárraga Jean
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In 1997, at the age of 29, Azcárr ...
– president and owner of
Televisa
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In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
the most important media network in Latin America
*Genaro Borrego – vice-president of
FEMSA
Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the l ...
*Gerardo Castaneda - technology innovator
AWS
*Fernando Chico Pardo – president of ASUR
*Justino Compeán Palacios – president of
Femexfut
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*Jaime Costa Lavín – president of
SCA
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Biology and health
* Sickle cell disease, also known as sickle cell anaemia
* Spinocerebellar ataxia, a neurological condition
* Statistical coupling analysis, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein mult ...
Latinoamérica
*Javier de la Calle Pardo- CEO of
Nacional Monte de Piedad
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*Valentín Diez Morodo – member of the board of
Grupo Modelo
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*Carlos Manuel Flores Nuñez – CEO of Grupo Editorial Nomutsa
*Carlos González Zabalegui – president of
Comercial Mexicana
*Carlos Guzmán Bofill – CEO of
Hewlett-Packard México
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*
Roberto Hernández Ramírez
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– president of
Banamex and member of the board of
Citibank
*
Leon Kraig Eskenazi – partner and managing director of IGNIA Partners L.L.C. and former president of
Mars Inc.
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Mars was ranked as the fourth-largest priv ...
in Latin America
*
Fernando Landeros Verdugo – CEO of
Fundación Teletón
*
Marcos Martínez Gavica – CEO of
Grupo Santander
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*
Manuel Medina Mora Escalante – CEO of
Grupo Financiero Banamex
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and
Citi
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Latinamerica
*
Bruno José Newman Flores
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People and fictional characters
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* Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880)
* Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, ...
– CEO of Grupo Zimat
*
Luis Orvañanos Lascurain – president and CEO of Grupo GEO
*
Luis Peña Kegel – president and CEO of
HSBC México
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*
Roberto Ricossa – CMO of
Avaya
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*
Daniel Servitje
Daniel Javier Servitje Montull (born 1 April 1959) is a Mexican billionaire businessman, and the president and CEO of Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bakery company.
Early life
Servitje was born on 1 April 1959 in Mexico City, Mexico, the son ...
– President and CEO of
Grupo Bimbo
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*
Alejandro Soberón Kuri – president and CEO of
CIE
*
Olegario Vázquez Aldir – CEO of
Grupo Empresarial Ángeles
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Its director general is Olegario Vázque ...
and son of
Olegario Vázquez Raña
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Film
*
Miguel Rico Tavera
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*Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands ...
– film screenwriter, producer and director (''
Padre Pro'', ''
Espiritu de Triunfo'' and more than 2,500 TV commercials and documentaries)
*
Guillermo Arriaga
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– film screenwriter, novelist and director (''
Amores Perros
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'', ''
21 Grams'' and ''
Babel'')
*
Daniel Birman Ripstein – film producer (''
El Crimen del Padre Amaro
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'', ''
El callejón de los milagros
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'' and other films)
*
Alejandro González Iñárritu
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– filmmaker (''
Amores Perros
''Amores perros'' is a 2000 Mexican psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by them both. ''Amores perros'' is the first installmen ...
'', ''
21 Grams'', ''
Babel'', ''
Birdman'', and ''
The Revenant'')
*
Salma Hayek
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– Mexican actress
*
Alejandro Lozano Alejandro Lozano may refer to:
*Alejandro Lozano (artist) (1939–2003), Spanish artist, painter and mosaic muralist
*Alejandro Lozano (director) (born 1975), Mexican film director known for directing ''Matando Cabos'' and ''Sultanes del Sur''
*Ale ...
– film director (''
Matando Cabos
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Although the film garnered mixed reviews from critics, it was we ...
'')
*
Arturo Ripstein
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– film director and producer (''
El callejón de los milagros
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'' and Directing Principio y Fin)
*
Antonio Serrano – film director/screenwriter (''
Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas
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'')
*
Nicole Vanden Broeck – film director
History, philosophy, literature, art and architecture
*
Graciela Abascal – painter
*
Angélica Argüelles Kubli
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– artist
*
Mauricio Beuchot Mauricio may refer to:
* Mauricio (given name)
*Maurício José da Silveira Júnior (born 1988), Brazilian footballer known by the mononym Maurício
*Maurício (footballer) (Maurício dos Santos Nascimento, born 1988), Brazilian footballer
*216428 ...
– philosopher, poet and Dominican friar
*
Tatiana Bilbao
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She founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in 2004 and has completed projects in China ...
– Mexican architect
*
Isaac Broid Zajman – Mexican architect
*
Clara de Buen Richkarday – Mexican architect
*
Fernanda Canales – Mexican architect
*
Frida Escobedo – Mexican architect
*
Pedro Friedeberg
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– Mexican painter
*
Victor Legorreta – Mexican architect
*
David Miklos
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– novelist
*
Paulina Morán – Mexican designer
*
Enrique Norten
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– Mexican architect
*
Aurelio Nuño Morales – Mexican architect
*
Silvia Pardo – painter
*
Isabel Rico De Garcia – curator/art historian (
Instituto Cultural De Mexico)
*
Michel Rojkind
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– Mexican architect and former musician of Russian descent
*
Fernando Romero
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Background
Ferna ...
– architect
*
J. Francisco Serrano Cacho
José Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho (b. Mexico City, October 30, 1937) is a Mexican architect.
Biography
Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked t ...
– architect
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Esteban Suárez Esteban () is a Spanish male given name, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and Stephen. Although in its original pronunciation the accent is on the penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend t ...
– Mexican architect
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Ignacio Padilla
Ignacio Padilla (November 7, 1968 – August 20, 2016)
was a Mexican writer whose works were translated into several languages. Padilla helped found the Crack Movement, along with fellow writers Eloy Urroz, Jorge Volpi, and Pedro Angel Pa ...
– writer
Politics and Public Sector
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José Guillermo Anaya Llamas – Senator
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Diego Fernández de Cevallos
Diego Fernández de Cevallos Ramos (; born 16 March 1941) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He was a presidential candidate in the 1994 election and President of the Mexican Senate.
Life ...
– 1994 presidential candidate and politician
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Emilio Gamboa Patrón
Emilio Antonio Gamboa Patrón (born 23 August 1950) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. He was Senator during the 2000–2003 and 2003–2006 Legislatures and deputy during the LX Legislature and the LXII Legislature of the Mexica ...
– former Secretary of State and now Parliamentary Coordinator for the
Partido Revolucionario Institucional
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 ...
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Vicente Fox Quesada
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 populist, Fox was elected president on the ...
– former President of Mexico (2000–2006).
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Cecilia Landerreche
Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born ...
(
es.) – Director of the
DIF
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Gustavo Madero Muñoz
Gustavo Enrique Madero Muñoz (born 16 December 1955) is a Mexican politician and businessman, great-nephew of the president Francisco I. Madero. He will serve as a senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress after previously being ...
– Senator
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Juan Carlos Natale
Juan Carlos Natale López (born 26 January 1981) is a Mexican politician. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
The LXI Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 1, 2009, to August 3 ...
– Congressist
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Demetrio Sodi – politician
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Josefina Vázquez Mota
Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota ( o̞.se̞'fi.na'βas.ke̞s'mo̞.ta (born 20 January 1961, in Mexico City) is a businessperson and politician who was the presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) for the 2012 elections. Vázque ...
– 2012 presidential candidate and Congressist
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Mabel Gómez Oliver
Mabel is an English female given name derived from the Latin ''amabilis'', "lovable, dear".Reclams Namensbuch, 1987,
History
Amabilis of Riom (died 475) was a French male saint who logically would have assumed the name Amabilis upon entering th ...
– Member of the Foreign Service and Ambassador
Television and mass media
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Javier Aceves (Baxter) – Radio DJ
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Brooke Baldwin
Brooke Baldwin (born July 12, 1979) is an American journalist, television host and author who was at CNN from 2008 until 2021. Baldwin hosted ''CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin'', which aired from 3pm to 4pm ET on weekdays.
Early life and educ ...
– CNN anchor
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Rosy Ocampo
Rosy Ocampo (born on November 11, 1959 in México City, D.F., México) is a Mexican
Mexican may refer to:
Mexico and its culture
*Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America
** People
*** Mexicans, inhabi ...
– television producer
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Jaime Smeke Balas – entrepreneur
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Jorge Ceballos Castelo – Pionero Social Media México
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Erick Hernández Villar –mMotion graphics developer
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Héctor Aguilar Camín
Héctor Aguilar Camín (born July 9, 1946) is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of ''Nexos'' magazine. ''Nexos'' was fined and banned for two years (2020-2022) from contracts with the Mexican Government (which had provided the ...
– Mexican writer, journalist and historian.
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Gabriela Hill
Gabriela Hill is a Mexican-American television personality who hosted ''Poker After Dark'' on Discovery Channel in Spanish-speaking Latin America from April through October 2010, on People+Arts Latin America from January through April 2010, on ...
– host of
Poker After Dark
''Poker After Dark'' is an hour-long poker television program that originally aired on NBC, premiering on January 1, 2007. (Full Tilt Poker en la noche) in Spanish-speaking Latin America
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Jorge Ramos – journalist
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Juan Ruiz Healy – Anchorman, television producer, political columnist and documentalist
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Vero Rodríguez – Sports journalist and television host
Science and engineering
*Rodrigo Cárdenas Domínguez — engineer physicist, CEO and owner of Infinity Technologies
See also
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Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and three theological centers in the United States, Canada, and Belize committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and ...
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List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions
Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities. This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of these institutions.
Note: Along with lay men and women, and non-Catholic ...
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List of Jesuit sites
This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association.
Nearly all these sites have bee ...
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List of universities in Mexico
This is a list of universities in Mexico.
Federal Universities
* General Coordination of Technological and Polytechnic Universities (CGUT)
* Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
*Instituto Politécnico Nacional
* Tecnologico Nacional de México
* Univ ...
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Iberoamerican University Torreón
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Universidad Iberoamericana León
Universidad Iberoamericana León (IBERO León) is a private, Catholic, Jesuit university campus located in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, which was founded in 1978 as a campus of Universidad Iberoamericana to extend its reach to the state of Guanaju ...
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Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education
''ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara'' — distinct from the University of Guadalajara — also known as ''Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, ITESO,'' is a Jesuit university in the Western Mexican state of Jalis ...
Bibliography
*Espinosa, David. ''Jesuit Student Groups, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Political Resistance in Mexico.'' Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2014
*Meneses Morales, Ernesto. ''La Universidad Iberoamericana en el Contexto de la Educación Superior Contemporanea''. Mexico City: UIA 1979.
References
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Universities in Mexico City
Educational institutions established in 1943
1943 establishments in Mexico
Jesuit universities and colleges in Mexico