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Alejandro Poiré Romero (; born January 15, 1971) is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of
Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician and lawyer who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 and 2004. ...
from 17 November 2011 to 1 December 2012, following the death of
Francisco Blake Mora José Francisco Blake Mora (; 22 May 1966 – 11 November 2011) was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón from 2010 to 2011. He was Mexico's top cabinet secretary and key ...
in a helicopter crash on 11 November 2011. Before his post as the Secretary of the Interior, Poiré served as spokesman of
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's national security in the cabinet of
Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician and lawyer who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 and 2004. ...
. He is often regarded as the face and voice of Mexico's strategy against
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and
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. Moreover, Poiré has the task of telling
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—and the world—the government's strategy in the fight against the drug cartels and organized crime in the country's drug war. He has worked in many operatives against organized crime, and he strengthened the security in Tamaulipas. He has published several studies on democratization, public opinion and political parties; in addition, he has lectured in several universities in Mexico, the United States,
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and Europe. Most of his work can be read in Reforma, Milenio, Milenio Semanal, Hoja por Hoja, Letras Libres, Cambio, Nexos and other newspapers.


Career

Alejandro Poiré was born in
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in 1971. He holds a bachelor's degree in
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from Mexico's Autonomous Institute of Technology, where he served as head of the department for four years, and a doctoral degree from
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. In addition, while serving as spokesman for Mexico's national security, Poiré serves as the director-general of the Ministry of Public Safety and the
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. He has also been a professor at the
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,
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, Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University, and as director of the
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and
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, where he helped the realization of the Primera Encuesta Nacional de Cultura Política y Prácticas Ciudadanas. On 26 May 2010, Poiré was named undersecretary of the Office of Population, Migration, and Religious Affairs, and later formed part of the Federal Public Administration. In 2013, Poiré was named head of the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Públicahttp://www.itesm.mx/wps/wcm/connect/snc/portal+informativo/por+tema/politica/egtp_alejandropoire22oct14 . and the Instituto de Administración Pública of the
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. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Center.


See also

* List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty


References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Poire Romero, Alejandro Living people People of the Mexican Drug War Harvard University alumni Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni 1971 births Secretaries of the interior of Mexico Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education