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Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
1
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME
Luis Echeverría Chavez
Presidential Period
1970-76
Born
January 17, 1922
Early Life and Education
He was born in Mexico City, he stuidied law in the UNAM where he taught political theory.
Political party
PRI
Political Career
On 1946 he joined the PRI as the personal asistant of the party’s leader. Then he was Comunications Deputty, He also was Chief Administrative of the Marine office and Cheif Mayor of the Education office. In 1958 he was named the second in charge at the Goverment Deputty Office for 1964 he became the Chief Goverment Deputty Office Secretary.
Economic Policy
He had an open economic policy, he founded the Mexican Institute for International Trade (IMCE for its spanish initials) He also worked in the foundation of the SELA which stands for Latin America Economic System.
Source (WWW)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Echeverr%C3%ADa
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel Let It Be - The Beatles Imagine - John Lennon Hotel California - The Eagles Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Dancing Queen - Abba
Top 5 songs playing at the time
PHOTO NAME
José Lopez Portillo
Presidential Period Born
1976 to 1982 June 16, 1920, Mexico City
Early Life and Education
Attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Chile. He then practiced law and later was professor of law, political science, and public administration at the National University of Mexico
Political party
PRI
Political Career
He held various administrative positions under Presidents Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría before becoming minister of finance in 1971.
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Economic Policy
López Portillo mounted an ambitious program for the exploitation of huge, newly discovered petroleum reserves in Veracruz and Tabasco states by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned Mexican oil agency. The program resulted in rapid economic growth and a dramatic increase in Mexico's oil exports, but much of the resulting wealth was squandered on inefficient state-run enterprises or was pocketed by government and labour union officials.
Source (WWW)
http://www.biography.com/articles/José-López-Portillo-40285 Dancing Queen - Abba Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions - Queen I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Top 5 songs playing at the time
PHOTO NAME
Miguel de La Madrid
Presidential Period Born
1982 to 1988 December 12, 1934, Colima
Early Life and Education
Received a degree in law from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City in 1957 and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1965.
Political party
PRI
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Political Career
He worked for the National Bank of Foreign Commerce and the Bank of Mexico, and, until 1968, he taught law at the UNAM.A member of Mexico's ruling party, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), from 1963, de la Madrid first entered government service in the Treasury (1965). From 1970 to 1972 he worked for Petróleos Mexicanos, but he returned to government service thereafter, taking a number of economic bureaucratic posts until becoming minister of planning and budget in President José López Portillo's administration (1976–82).
Economic Policy
He was the principal author of an economic-development plan that was inspired by the revenues from vast new discoveries of Mexican petroleum.A political conservative and friend of the business community
Source (WWW)
http://www.biography.com/articles/Miguel-de-la-Madrid-38639
Top 5 songs playing at the time
Beat It - Michael Jackson Like a Virgin - Madonna Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News Kiss - Prince
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1988-94 Mexico City, 3 Apr. 1948 -
Early Life and Education
After school in Mexico City Carlos studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), from which he graduated in 1971. He then moved to Harvard University for postgraduate work
Political party
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) He worked under José López Portillo (President of the Republic 1976 – 82) and Miguel de la Madrid (President of the Republic 1982 – 8). When the latter was selected as the governing party's candidate in 1981 he invited Salinas to help run his presidential campaign as director of the PRI's "think tank", the Institute of Political, Economic, and Social Studies (IEPES). He was rewarded with the post of Minister of the Treasury for the whole of the de la Madrid term, that is, until his own nomination by the PRI in 1987.
Political Career Economic Policy
Salinas promoted privatization of state industries and free trade agreements, most notably NAFTA with the United States and Canada. Many believe that his government lacked legitimacy because he won the elections in suspicious circumstances involving a complete shutdown of the computer systems that were concentrating the results of the vote in 1988. During his presidency Salinas opened a three-year dialogue with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation armed indigenous revolutionary movement. He offered a ceasefire after a few days of fighting in 1994. Despite this handicap Salinas launched himself enthusiastically into a campaign of radical economic reforms. He was fully committed to the ideas of neo-liberal economics favoured by the International Monetary Fund and began the process of restructuring the Mexican economy. This involved efforts to reduce the size and scope of the state in economic life and an encouragement of
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
foreign investment and free trade. He began negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in order to facilitate commerce between Mexico and its northern neighbours, the USA and Canada. He thus sought to reverse the Mexican government's post-revolutionary commitment to nationalism, import substitution industrialization, and state-sponsored social protectionism http://www.answers.com/topic/carlos-salinas http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Salinas_Carlos.html 1. "Need You Tonight," INXS 2. "Look Away," Chicago 3. Hold On, Wilson Phillips 4. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams 5. End Of The Road, Boyz II Men
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon President of Mexico (1994–2000) (1951– Ernesto Zedillo was born on December 27, 1951 in Mexico City. His parents were Rodolfo Zedillo Castillo, a mechanic, and Martha Alicia Ponce de León. Seeking better job and education opportunities for his children, his parents moved to Mexicali, Baja California. His humble origins made him appreciate the idea of progress and self improvement, even though he was well aware of the few opportunities he had for this. Zedillo was educated in public schools in Mexicali where he was recognized as an excellent student. During his adolescence, young Ernesto actively participated in school events, such as alumni societies and head of the school newspaper. In 1965, at the age of 14, he returned to Mexico City. In 1969 he entered the National Polytechnic Institute, financing his studies by working in the National Army and Navy Bank (nowadays Banjercito). He graduated as an Economist in 1972 and began lecturing. It was among his first group of students where he met his wife, Nilda Patricia Velasco with whom he has 5 children: Ernesto, Emiliano, Carlos, Nilda Patricia and Rodrigo.
Early Life and Education Political party
In 1974 he pursued his master's and Ph.D. studies at Yale University. His doctoral thesis was titled: "Mexico's public external debt: recent history and future growth related to oil". Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Ernesto Zedillo is the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the School of Economics of the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University. He was a Professor at the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute and El Colegio de Mexico. From 1978-87 he was with the Central Bank of Mexico; from 1987-88 he served the National Government of Mexico as Undersecretary of Budget; from 1988-1992 as Secretary of Economic Programming and Budget Education; and was appointed Secretary of Education in 1992. He served as President of Mexico from 1994-2000. Since leaving office in 2000, Ernesto Zedillo has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations. Political Career Economic Policy
Zedillo was just the man to calm nervous investors and continue Mexico's version of perestroika, launched in the mid-1980s. Not only were his academic credentials impeccable, but he won praise as research director of Mexico's highly regarded central bank and as head of the FICORCA program that helped private Mexican companies restructure their foreign debt. He also performed brilliantly as Salinas' secretary of planning and budget (19881992). In this sensitive position, he emerged as a major architect of Mexico's economic liberalization. He helped convert a 20 percent federal government deficit into a surplus - the equivalent of 4.5 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings agreements in the United States. Along the way he deftly salved the bruised egos of losers in the budget process, while sharply boosting outlays for the antipoverty Solidarity initiative and other social ventures. Moreover, he played a key role in crafting the anti-inflation plan that pivoted on a wageand price-control pact among government, unions, and the private sector. This scheme slashed price increases from 159.2 percent in 1987, the year before Salinas took office, to 8 percent in 1993 with a further reduction anticipated in 1994. After winning the presidential election in 1994, Zedillo began the tough job that lay ahead. It was clear that Mexico's next president needed to gradually marginalize dinosaur politicians, while broadening access to the political process for elements of the business community. Professionals, women, young people, shantytown dwellers, and small farmers all saw the departing regime as representing repression, rigged elections, and corruption. At the same time, Zedillo worked to convince dirt-poor Chiapan
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
peasants and other "have nots" that their country's foreign-educated mandarins cared about their plight, as Salinas attempted to do through Solidarity http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/center/zedillo.html http://www.answers.com/topic/ernesto-zedillo-ponce-de-le-n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Zedillo Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
1. The Sign, Ace Of Base 2. I Swear, All-4-One 3. Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio 4. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John 5. Breathe, Faith Hill
August 27th, 2009
Class exercise 2.
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO Vicente Fox Quesada NAME Presidential Period
(2000- 2006) Mexico City, Mexico. 2 July 1942
Born Vicente Fox studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Early Life and Education Political party
He then studied a Top Management Diploma at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. National Action Party (PAN) During the 1980's, Vicente began his political career by joining the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN). He was greatly encouraged by Manuel J. Clouthier, better known as Maquio, who invited Vicente to work with him and, in this way, "make the aspiration of creating a different and better Mexico for our children a reality". Vicente’s political career has been a swift, upward climb. He has been Federal Congressmen for the Third District of León and Secretary of Agriculture in the opposition cabinet formed by Maquio to give follow-up to government policies. From this time on, Vicente also begun to write political articles in national and state newspapers. Furthermore, in 1991, he ran for Governor of the state of Guanajuato; nonetheless, Carlos Medina Plascencia was named Interim Governor in his place. In 1995, he participated in the extraordinary election for the governorship. of Guanajuato, and was elected by an overwhelming majority of two votes to one (1995-1999).
Political Career
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
As state Governor, Vicente Fox strove to promote economic development by encouraging the private sector, foreign investment and, above all the consolidation of small firms. Thus, in order to open up new markets, he promoted the sale of goods manufactured in Guanajuato overseas. He improved and broadened the state’s economic infrastructure so as to attract domestic and foreign investment, and also created a unique system in which microcredits with no overdue portfolio were granted. Under his leadership, Guanajuato became the fifth most important Mexican state economy and, in certain productive sectors, even surpassed the national average. Vicente Fox was one of the first state governors to give a clear, public and timely account of the finances of Guanajuato state and of his personal patrimony Economic Policy http://www.un.int/mexico/biography_fox.htm http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/2005.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox#Early_political_career Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
1. A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton 2. Get The Party Started, Pink 3. Complicated, Avril Lavigne 4. We Belong Together, Mariah Carey 5. Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Early Life and Education Political party
Political Career
Economic Policy Source (WWW) Top 5 songs playing at the time
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
August 27th, 2009
1
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME
Luis Echeverría Chavez
Presidential Period
1970-76
Born
January 17, 1922
Early Life and Education
He was born in Mexico City, he stuidied law in the UNAM where he taught political theory.
Political party
PRI
Political Career
On 1946 he joined the PRI as the personal asistant of the party’s leader. Then he was Comunications Deputty, He also was Chief Administrative of the Marine office and Cheif Mayor of the Education office. In 1958 he was named the second in charge at the Goverment Deputty Office for 1964 he became the Chief Goverment Deputty Office Secretary.
Economic Policy
He had an open economic policy, he founded the Mexican Institute for International Trade (IMCE for its spanish initials) He also worked in the foundation of the SELA which stands for Latin America Economic System.
Source (WWW)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Echeverr%C3%ADa
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel Let It Be - The Beatles Imagine - John Lennon Hotel California - The Eagles Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Dancing Queen - Abba
Top 5 songs playing at the time
PHOTO NAME
José Lopez Portillo
Presidential Period Born
1976 to 1982 June 16, 1920, Mexico City
Early Life and Education
Attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Chile. He then practiced law and later was professor of law, political science, and public administration at the National University of Mexico
Political party
PRI
Political Career
He held various administrative positions under Presidents Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría before becoming minister of finance in 1971.
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Economic Policy
López Portillo mounted an ambitious program for the exploitation of huge, newly discovered petroleum reserves in Veracruz and Tabasco states by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned Mexican oil agency. The program resulted in rapid economic growth and a dramatic increase in Mexico's oil exports, but much of the resulting wealth was squandered on inefficient state-run enterprises or was pocketed by government and labour union officials.
Source (WWW)
http://www.biography.com/articles/José-López-Portillo-40285 Dancing Queen - Abba Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions - Queen I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Top 5 songs playing at the time
PHOTO NAME
Miguel de La Madrid
Presidential Period Born
1982 to 1988 December 12, 1934, Colima
Early Life and Education
Received a degree in law from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City in 1957 and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1965.
Political party
PRI
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Political Career
He worked for the National Bank of Foreign Commerce and the Bank of Mexico, and, until 1968, he taught law at the UNAM.A member of Mexico's ruling party, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), from 1963, de la Madrid first entered government service in the Treasury (1965). From 1970 to 1972 he worked for Petróleos Mexicanos, but he returned to government service thereafter, taking a number of economic bureaucratic posts until becoming minister of planning and budget in President José López Portillo's administration (1976–82).
Economic Policy
He was the principal author of an economic-development plan that was inspired by the revenues from vast new discoveries of Mexican petroleum.A political conservative and friend of the business community
Source (WWW)
http://www.biography.com/articles/Miguel-de-la-Madrid-38639
Top 5 songs playing at the time
Beat It - Michael Jackson Like a Virgin - Madonna Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News Kiss - Prince
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1988-94 Mexico City, 3 Apr. 1948 -
Early Life and Education
After school in Mexico City Carlos studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), from which he graduated in 1971. He then moved to Harvard University for postgraduate work
Political party
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) He worked under José López Portillo (President of the Republic 1976 – 82) and Miguel de la Madrid (President of the Republic 1982 – 8). When the latter was selected as the governing party's candidate in 1981 he invited Salinas to help run his presidential campaign as director of the PRI's "think tank", the Institute of Political, Economic, and Social Studies (IEPES). He was rewarded with the post of Minister of the Treasury for the whole of the de la Madrid term, that is, until his own nomination by the PRI in 1987.
Political Career Economic Policy
Salinas promoted privatization of state industries and free trade agreements, most notably NAFTA with the United States and Canada. Many believe that his government lacked legitimacy because he won the elections in suspicious circumstances involving a complete shutdown of the computer systems that were concentrating the results of the vote in 1988. During his presidency Salinas opened a three-year dialogue with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation armed indigenous revolutionary movement. He offered a ceasefire after a few days of fighting in 1994. Despite this handicap Salinas launched himself enthusiastically into a campaign of radical economic reforms. He was fully committed to the ideas of neo-liberal economics favoured by the International Monetary Fund and began the process of restructuring the Mexican economy. This involved efforts to reduce the size and scope of the state in economic life and an encouragement of
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
foreign investment and free trade. He began negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in order to facilitate commerce between Mexico and its northern neighbours, the USA and Canada. He thus sought to reverse the Mexican government's post-revolutionary commitment to nationalism, import substitution industrialization, and state-sponsored social protectionism http://www.answers.com/topic/carlos-salinas http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Salinas_Carlos.html 1. "Need You Tonight," INXS 2. "Look Away," Chicago 3. Hold On, Wilson Phillips 4. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams 5. End Of The Road, Boyz II Men
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon President of Mexico (1994–2000) (1951– Ernesto Zedillo was born on December 27, 1951 in Mexico City. His parents were Rodolfo Zedillo Castillo, a mechanic, and Martha Alicia Ponce de León. Seeking better job and education opportunities for his children, his parents moved to Mexicali, Baja California. His humble origins made him appreciate the idea of progress and self improvement, even though he was well aware of the few opportunities he had for this. Zedillo was educated in public schools in Mexicali where he was recognized as an excellent student. During his adolescence, young Ernesto actively participated in school events, such as alumni societies and head of the school newspaper. In 1965, at the age of 14, he returned to Mexico City. In 1969 he entered the National Polytechnic Institute, financing his studies by working in the National Army and Navy Bank (nowadays Banjercito). He graduated as an Economist in 1972 and began lecturing. It was among his first group of students where he met his wife, Nilda Patricia Velasco with whom he has 5 children: Ernesto, Emiliano, Carlos, Nilda Patricia and Rodrigo.
Early Life and Education Political party
In 1974 he pursued his master's and Ph.D. studies at Yale University. His doctoral thesis was titled: "Mexico's public external debt: recent history and future growth related to oil". Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
Ernesto Zedillo is the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the School of Economics of the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University. He was a Professor at the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute and El Colegio de Mexico. From 1978-87 he was with the Central Bank of Mexico; from 1987-88 he served the National Government of Mexico as Undersecretary of Budget; from 1988-1992 as Secretary of Economic Programming and Budget Education; and was appointed Secretary of Education in 1992. He served as President of Mexico from 1994-2000. Since leaving office in 2000, Ernesto Zedillo has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations. Political Career Economic Policy
Zedillo was just the man to calm nervous investors and continue Mexico's version of perestroika, launched in the mid-1980s. Not only were his academic credentials impeccable, but he won praise as research director of Mexico's highly regarded central bank and as head of the FICORCA program that helped private Mexican companies restructure their foreign debt. He also performed brilliantly as Salinas' secretary of planning and budget (19881992). In this sensitive position, he emerged as a major architect of Mexico's economic liberalization. He helped convert a 20 percent federal government deficit into a surplus - the equivalent of 4.5 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings agreements in the United States. Along the way he deftly salved the bruised egos of losers in the budget process, while sharply boosting outlays for the antipoverty Solidarity initiative and other social ventures. Moreover, he played a key role in crafting the anti-inflation plan that pivoted on a wageand price-control pact among government, unions, and the private sector. This scheme slashed price increases from 159.2 percent in 1987, the year before Salinas took office, to 8 percent in 1993 with a further reduction anticipated in 1994. After winning the presidential election in 1994, Zedillo began the tough job that lay ahead. It was clear that Mexico's next president needed to gradually marginalize dinosaur politicians, while broadening access to the political process for elements of the business community. Professionals, women, young people, shantytown dwellers, and small farmers all saw the departing regime as representing repression, rigged elections, and corruption. At the same time, Zedillo worked to convince dirt-poor Chiapan
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
peasants and other "have nots" that their country's foreign-educated mandarins cared about their plight, as Salinas attempted to do through Solidarity http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/center/zedillo.html http://www.answers.com/topic/ernesto-zedillo-ponce-de-le-n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Zedillo Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
1. The Sign, Ace Of Base 2. I Swear, All-4-One 3. Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio 4. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John 5. Breathe, Faith Hill
August 27th, 2009
Class exercise 2.
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO Vicente Fox Quesada NAME Presidential Period
(2000- 2006) Mexico City, Mexico. 2 July 1942
Born Vicente Fox studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Early Life and Education Political party
He then studied a Top Management Diploma at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. National Action Party (PAN) During the 1980's, Vicente began his political career by joining the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN). He was greatly encouraged by Manuel J. Clouthier, better known as Maquio, who invited Vicente to work with him and, in this way, "make the aspiration of creating a different and better Mexico for our children a reality". Vicente’s political career has been a swift, upward climb. He has been Federal Congressmen for the Third District of León and Secretary of Agriculture in the opposition cabinet formed by Maquio to give follow-up to government policies. From this time on, Vicente also begun to write political articles in national and state newspapers. Furthermore, in 1991, he ran for Governor of the state of Guanajuato; nonetheless, Carlos Medina Plascencia was named Interim Governor in his place. In 1995, he participated in the extraordinary election for the governorship. of Guanajuato, and was elected by an overwhelming majority of two votes to one (1995-1999).
Political Career
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
As state Governor, Vicente Fox strove to promote economic development by encouraging the private sector, foreign investment and, above all the consolidation of small firms. Thus, in order to open up new markets, he promoted the sale of goods manufactured in Guanajuato overseas. He improved and broadened the state’s economic infrastructure so as to attract domestic and foreign investment, and also created a unique system in which microcredits with no overdue portfolio were granted. Under his leadership, Guanajuato became the fifth most important Mexican state economy and, in certain productive sectors, even surpassed the national average. Vicente Fox was one of the first state governors to give a clear, public and timely account of the finances of Guanajuato state and of his personal patrimony Economic Policy http://www.un.int/mexico/biography_fox.htm http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/2005.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox#Early_political_career Source (WWW)
Top 5 songs playing at the time
1. A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton 2. Get The Party Started, Pink 3. Complicated, Avril Lavigne 4. We Belong Together, Mariah Carey 5. Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
PHOTO NAME Presidential Period Born
Early Life and Education Political party
Political Career
Economic Policy Source (WWW) Top 5 songs playing at the time
Class exercise 2.
August 27th, 2009
Student’s Name: ____________________________________________ ID # __________ Complete the following table:
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