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| Calderon shakes up cabinet as Cordero leaves to run for president |
| 2011-09-11 |
| Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa shook up his cabinet Friday, allowing one minister to run for president in 2012, according to Mexican news reports. Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo, minster of finance submittted his expected resignation Friday to begin his run for the president in 2012. Cordero has held the post since 2010. His replacement, Jose Antonio Meade, took the Minister of Energy portfolio last fall replacing Georgina Kessel, who stepped down to become CEO of Mexico's National Bank of Public Works and Services (BANOBRAS). BANOBRAS' old boss, Alonso Garcia Tamez, left Calderon's government to enter the private sector. Currently the field of candidates for president of the republic for the Partido Accion National (PAN) include Josefina Vasquez Mota, a Nuevo Leon federal deputy, Santiago Creel Miranda, a senator from Chihuahua state, and now Cordero Arroyo. Cordero Arroyo, like Vazquez Mota is an economist by trade. Earlier in the month, Cordero was involved in the burgeoning scandal involving Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) leader Humberto Moreira, when he announced he asked the national attorney general to investigate Moreira for his dealings while governor of Coahuila state. Moreira assumed the post of leader of PRI last spring. It is unknown how Cordero's expected departure will affect the Moreira scandal. The Calderon government is for all intents and purposes a lame duck government. The PRI, their bitterest and long time rival is expected to retake the presidency in 2012 after an absence of 12 years, however, the Moreira scandal may affect that. Others in the shuffling include Alejandro Poire Romero, who moves from national security advisor to head of Mexican intelligence. Poire Romero replaces Guillermo Valdes Castellanos, who has held the post since the start of the Calderon administration. Taking Poire Romero's post as national security advisor is Alejandra Sota Mirafuentes, who served in various minor posts in PAN, in Calderon's election campaign and in the Calderon government itself, mostly with communications jobs. Appointed to the Minister of Health is Salomon Chertorivski, who has served in Calderon's government as National Commissioner for the Protection of Social Health, and is an internationally known advocate for universal health care in Mexico. He replaces Jos" Angel Cordova Villalobos. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 IIRC WND/TOPIX > [Larry] KLUGMAN: ITS TIME FOR THE US TO INVADE MEXICO. D *** NG IT, DOES THIS MEAN WE [still]HAVEN'T DONE SO YET!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-11 00:40 |