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Jan 22, 2023 · Starting in late 2006, as President Felipe Calderón sought much wider U.S. help to fight drug mafias and transform the criminal justice system, García Luna served for years as his powerful...
Feb 7, 2023 · A former Mexican official convicted of drug trafficking testified in a New York court on Tuesday that he had been told that Felipe Calderón, the onetime president of Mexico, had instructed...
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Feb 21, 2023 · Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press. Leave your feedback. Mexico’s former public security chief convicted in U.S. drug case. World Feb 21, 2023 4:59 PM EDT. NEW YORK (AP) — A former Mexican...
Apr 29, 2024 · Felipe Calderon, Mexican politician who served as president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012. His tenure was marked by greater economic stability, but his efforts to curtail drug-related violence and cartel warfare were unsuccessful. Learn more about Calderon’s life and career.
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- Background and Personal Life
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- 2006 Presidential Election
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- 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...
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe kaldeˈɾon] ⓘ; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician 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.
Nov 29, 2012 · Exiting Mexican Leader to Go to Harvard. By Karla Zabludovsky. Nov. 29, 2012. MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderón, who unleashed the military to take on drug traffickers and saw violence...
