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
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...
(PRI).
He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President
Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
Inheriting a severe economic an ...
(1982–1986), as ambassador to
Spain
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(1991–1994)
and the
United States
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(1995–1997),
and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexicans, Mexican economist, historían and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Considered the frontman of Mexican Neoliberalism by formulating, p ...
.
Biography
Silva Herzog was born as Jesús Silva y Flores
in
Mexico City
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to economic historian
Jesús Silva Herzog and Josefina Flores Villarreal.
He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...
(UNAM, 1959) and a master's degree in the same discipline from
Yale University
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(1962).
He taught several courses in Economics at UNAM (1963–1969) and (1964–1969); worked as an economist for the
Inter-American Development Bank
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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
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 ...
(1979–1982).
In 2000, he lost Mexico City's
Head of Government
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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
Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez.
References
Further reading
*
Castañeda, Jorge G. ''Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen''. New York: The New Press 2000.
See also
*
Latin American debt crisis
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1935 births
2017 deaths
Secretaries of finance of Mexico
Secretaries of tourism of Mexico
Mexican economists
Ambassadors of Mexico to the United States
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Yale University alumni
Academic staff of El Colegio de México
Politicians from Mexico City
Ambassadors of Mexico to Spain
20th-century Mexican politicians