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Samuel Ocaña García
Samuel Ocaña García (2 August 1931 – 31 December 2024) was a Mexican politician and doctor who served as the governor of Sonora from 1979 to 1985 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was known for his contributions towards the advancement of Sonoran culture and education during his term. Early life and education Ocaña was born in August 1931 in Arivechi, Sonora. He attended elementary school at the J. Cruz Gálvez boarding school in the state capital of Hermosillo before completing his secondary studies at the Boarding School for Children of Ejidatarios in Tepic, Nayarit. At the latter, Ocaña was a classmate of future governor of Nayarit . Ocaña returned to Hermosillo in 1947, where he worked at a textile factory for two years and helped create a textile workers' union. He earned his medical degree from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) Higher School of Rural Medicine before attending the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal President
A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the town or city. The position is comparable to the county executive of a county in the United States or to the mayor of a city in the United States, although the jurisdiction of a ''presidente municipal'' includes not only a city but the municipality surrounding it. Nationally, this position is also equivalent to that of Head of Government of the Federal District and that is why these positions are sometimes referred to as "mayors" in English-language publications. Lists * Municipal president of Cananea * Municipal president of Chihuahua * Municipal president of Ciudad Juárez * Municipal president of Mérida, Yucatán * Municipal president of Monterrey * Municipal president of Sabinas Hidalgo * Municipal president of Puebla See also * Alca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issuu
Issuu, Inc. (pronounced "issue") is a Danish-founded American electronic publishing platform based in Palo Alto, California, United States. The company's software converts PDFs into customizable digital publications that can be shared via links or embedded into websites. Founded in 2006, the company moved its headquarters from Denmark to the United States in 2013. History Issuu was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006 by Michael and Rubyn Bjerg Hansen, Mikkel Jensen, and Martin Ferro-Thomsen. In 2009, Apple rejected Issuu's app three times, because it was seen as too similar to Apple's planned Newsstand service. In August 2009, the company's website was named one of ''Time (magazine), Times 50 Best Websites. By 2011, Issuu software was used by several online publications. In early 2013, the company opened an office in Palo Alto, California and appointed CEO Joe Hyrkin, formerly of Reverb, Trinity Ventures, and Yahoo!, to helm its Silicon Valley operations. The company soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipal Presidents Of Hermosillo
The following is a list of municipal presidents of Hermosillo in Sonora state, Mexico. See also * * Hermosillo#History, Hermosillo history References {{Reflist Lists of municipal presidents in Mexico, Hermosillo People from Hermosillo Politicians from Sonora History of Sonora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party (, PAN) is a Conservatism, conservative List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico founded in 1939. It is one of the main political parties in the country, and, since the 1980s, has had success winning local, state, and national elections. In the historic 2000 Mexican general election, PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected president, the first time in 71 years that the Mexican presidency was not held by the traditional ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. Six years later, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón succeeded Fox after winning the 2006 Mexican general election, 2006 presidential election. In the 2006 Mexican general election, 2006 legislative elections, the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico), Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senate of the Republic (Mexico), senators. In the 2012 Mexican general election, 2012 legislative elections, the PAN won 38 seats in the Senate and 114 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Armando Biebrich
Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres (19 November 1939 – 14 January 2021) was a Mexican lawyer and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Sonora from 1973 to 1975. Biography Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres was born on 19 November 1939 in Sahuaripa, Sonora. Before he turned 30, Biebrich Torres was subsecretary of the Secretariat of the Interior under President Luis Echeverría Álvarez. Biebrich served as Governor of Sonora from 1973 to 1975. In October 1975 a group of Yaqui farmers took over some private property that they said had been unfairly taken from them. Governor Biebrich ordered the violent expulsion of the farmers, and several died. Biebrich was forced to resign; the incident was investigated and he was exonerated of any wrongdoing. President Echeverría expropriated the land at the end of his term and turned it over to the Yaqui farmers. He also served as a deputy in the XLVII (1964–1967) and LX (2006–2009) Legislatures of the Mexic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal President
A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the town or city. The position is comparable to the county executive of a county in the United States or to the mayor of a city in the United States, although the jurisdiction of a ''presidente municipal'' includes not only a city but the municipality surrounding it. Nationally, this position is also equivalent to that of Head of Government of the Federal District and that is why these positions are sometimes referred to as "mayors" in English-language publications. Lists * Municipal president of Cananea * Municipal president of Chihuahua * Municipal president of Ciudad Juárez * Municipal president of Mérida, Yucatán * Municipal president of Monterrey * Municipal president of Sabinas Hidalgo * Municipal president of Puebla See also * Alca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universidad De Sonora
The University of Sonora ( Universidad de Sonora, abbreviated as Unison) is a public university in the northwestern state of Sonora, Mexico that has a strong research program. The university was founded in 1942 and is considered the main cultural and educational driver in the state. The university motto is "El saber de mis hijos hará mi grandeza" ("The knowledge of my children will be my greatness"). It is the largest university of Sonora with about 30,000 students (about 28,000 for undergraduate studies and 2,000 for postgraduate studies) distributed in five campuses. Dr. Enrique Velázquez Contreras started his tenure as the University Rector in June 2017 for a period of four years (renewable). Under his leadership the university has prepared its Strategic Initiative putting special emphasis on the Internationalization of its academic and research programs. Overview According to the Mexican National Center for Evaluation for Higher Education (CENEVAL), Sonora has recently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preparatoria
Education in Mexico has a long history. Indigenous peoples in Central Mexico created institutions such as the ''Tēlpochcalli, telpochcalli'' and the ''calmecac'' before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, Spanish conquest. The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, the second oldest university in the Americas, was founded by royal decree in 1551. Education in Mexico was, until the early twentieth century, largely confined to males from urban and wealthy segments and under the auspices of the Catholic Church in Mexico, Catholic Church. The Mexican state has been directly involved in education since the nineteenth century, promoting secular education. Control of education was a source of an ongoing conflict between the Mexican state and the Catholic Church, which since the colonial era had exclusive charge of education. The mid-nineteenth-century La Reforma, Liberal Reform separated church and state, which had a direct impact on education. President Benito Juárez sought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navojoa
Navojoa is the fifth-largest city in the northern Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Sonora and is situated in the southern part of the state. The city is the administrative seat of Navojoa Municipality, located in the Mayo River (Mexico), Mayo River Valley. History The city name derives from the native Mayo language meaning "cactus-house" (Navo"= Cactus, "Jova"= House). The valley has been continuously inhabited since pre-Hispanic times by the Mayo people. In September 1536, Diego de Guzmán, a Spaniard, became the first known European to reach the valley. The first Jesuit missionaries started settling in the region in 1614, founding Mission Santa Catalina Camoa. Several geoglyphs from the Mayo tribe can be found along the Mayo River. Due to the city's distant location from Mexico City, the difficult times of Mexico's independence in the early 19th century were largely absent from the region. However, the city had some importance after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)
The Popular Socialist Party (, PPS) is an unregistered political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party (''Partido Popular'') by Vicente Lombardo Toledano. Lombardo Toledano, the initial leader of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), decided to launch a new party in response to the increasingly moderate and corrupt policies of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The Popular Party was supported by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos y Similares de la República Mexicana, mine, oil and rail workers' unions, but its potential strength in elections was reduced by the strength of the PRI. The party adopted Marxism-Leninism as its ideological line in 1960. It was renamed the Popular Socialist Party in 1960, and over time its leadership became less critical of the PRI; indeed, in all presidential elections between 1958 and 1982 the PPS supported the PRI candidates, and therefore it was often criticized as being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo De La Huerta
Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor (; 26 May 1881 – 9 July 1955) was a Mexican politician, the 45th President of Mexico from 1 June to 30 November 1920, following the overthrow of Mexican president Venustiano Carranza, with Sonoran generals Alvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles under the Plan of Agua Prieta. He is considered "an important figure among Constitutionalists during the Mexican Revolution." Biography De la Huerta was born on 26 May 1881, to a prominent family in Guaymas, Sonora. Although he studied music in Hermosillo, and earned a certificate in it, he became a bookkeeper to support his family. In 1908 he joined an Anti-Reelectionist club and in 1910 became its secretary, costing him his government job. In 1911, he defeated Plutarco Elías Calles for a seat in the Sonora state legislature. However, both men joined the Constitutionalist movement following the coup of Victoriano Huerta in February 1913 against Francisco I. Madero. De la Huerta became Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
