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Felipe Calderón was born in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico on 18 August 1962. He is the youngest of five brothers and son of Carmen Hinojosa Calderón and the late Luis Calderón Vega . His father was a co-founder of the National Action Party and an important political figure. The elder Calderón occupied state posts and served a term as federal ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Felipe Calderón (born August 18, 1962, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico) is a Mexican politician who served as president of Mexico (2006–12). Calderón studied law at the Free School of Law in Mexico City and later did postgraduate study in economics at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. In 2000 he earned a master’s degree in ...
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- Background and Personal Life
- Political Career
- 2006 Presidential Election
- Presidential Policies
- War on The Cartels
- November 2008 Plane Crash
- Post-Presidential Legacy
Calderón comes from a political family. His father was one of several founders of the PAN party at a time when Mexico was essentially ruled by one party only, the PRI or Revolutionary Party. An excellent student, Felipe earned degrees in law and economics in Mexico before going to Harvard University, where he received a Masters of Public Administra...
Calderón served as a representative in the Federal Chamber of Deputies, a parliamentary body resembling the House of Representatives in the U.S. In 1995, he ran for governor of the state of Michoacán, but lost to Lázaro Cárdenas, another son of a famous political family. He nevertheless went on to national prominence, serving as national chairman f...
Calderón’s road to the presidency was bumpy. First, he had a falling-out with Vicente Fox, who openly endorsed another candidate, Santiago Creel. Creel later lost to Calderón in a primary election. In the general election, his most serious opponent was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, representative of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Calderón wo...
A social conservative, Calderón opposed issues such as gay marriage, abortion (including the “morning-after” pill), euthanasia, and contraception education. His administration was fiscally moderate to liberal, however. He was in favor of free trade, lower taxes and privatization of state-controlled businesses. Early on in his presidency, Calderón a...
Calderon gained worldwide recognition for his all-out war on Mexico's drug cartels. Mexico's powerful smuggling cartels silently ship tons of narcotics from Central and South America into the U.S. and Canada, making billions of dollars. Other than the occasional turf war, no one heard much about them. Previous administrations had left them alone, l...
President Calderon's efforts to fight organized drug cartels suffered a major setback in November 2008, when a plane crash killed fourteen people, including Juan Camilo Mourino, Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, and Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, a high-profile prosecutor of drug-related crimes. Although many suspected the accident was the resul...
In Mexico, presidents may only serve one term, and Calderon's came to a close in 2012. In the presidential elections, moderate Enrique Pena Nietoof the PRI won, beating out López Obrador and PAN candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota. Pena Nieto promised to continue Calderon's war on the cartels. Mexicans see Calderon's term as a limited success, as the e...
Nov 30, 2012 · Senator Ernesto Cordero of Mr Calderon's PAN party says the government generated $126bn (£78bn) of direct foreign investment in Mexico over the past six years and created some 2.5 million new jobs.
Jan 21, 2011 · A Harvard-educated lawyer, Mr Calderon is a career politician. He served as head of the national development bank, Banobras, under his predecessor, Vicente Fox and was energy secretary from 2002 ...
Dec 9, 2011 · Transcript. Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's declaration of all-out war against drug traffickers in his country. In 2006, he vowed to use all the powers of ...
Sep 6, 2006 · On Tuesday morning, the country’s highest electoral tribunal officially declared him the victor. On Dec. 1, he will take office. To call the balding and bespectacled Mr. Calderón a career ...
