Juan Camilo Mouriño

Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo (born August 1, 1971 in Madrid - † November 4, 2008 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) and since January 15, 2008 Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón .

Life

Mouriño was born in 1971 in the Spanish capital, the son of a Spaniard and a Mexican, whose parents, like his father, came from Galicia . His father Carlos Mouriño emigrated to Mexico in 1978, where he became one of the most important entrepreneurs in the State of Campeche . He has lived in Spain again since 2000, where he is, among other things, president of the Celta Vigo soccer club .

At the age of 18, Mouriño received his Mexican citizenship. He studied economics at the private University of Tampa in the United States and later with a major in finance at the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche .

After graduating, Mouriño was initially a member of the Congress of the State of Campeche . In 2003 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Campeche . When Felipe Calderón was appointed Minister of Energy in the government of Vicente Fox Quesada , Calderón named Mouriño its Secretary of State. From 2006 to 2008 he headed Calderón's office and was its campaign manager. Mouriño joined President Felipe Calderón's cabinet as Minister of the Interior in January 2008. In this role he took up the fight against Mexico's powerful drug cartels . Mouriño was considered Calderón's closest confidante, was his deputy and thus the second highest authority in the Mexican government hierarchy.

Mouriño was killed in a plane crash on the evening of November 4, 2008. The Learjet 45 (XC-VMC) of the Mexican Ministry of the Interior was on the way to City Mexico Airport as she the affluent district of Lomas de Chapultepec crashed in Mexico City. The wreck landed on the Paseo de la Reforma . A total of 16 people were killed and several people were injured on the ground.

Individual evidence

↑ Los negocios de Carlos Mouriño Atanés ( Memento of the original of November 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CNN expansion.com, July 12, 2007 (Spanish) @1@ 2
↑ Mexico's interior minister killed in helicopter crash - The Telegraph - Nov 11, 2011 , AP, November 5, 2008 (English); Muere titular de Segob en accidente aéreo , Hechos TV Azteca , November 4, 2008 (Spanish); Aumentan a 14 las víctimas del siniestro aéreo en México , El Comercio , November 8, 2008 (Spanish).

Web links

Wikinews: Mexico: Interior Minister Killed in Airplane Crash - News

Sergio Javier Jiménez, Juan Camilo Mouriño o "Iván el fino" , El Universal , August 13, 2006 (Spanish)

personal data
SURNAME	Mouriño, Juan Camilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mouriño Terrazo, Juan Camilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1st August 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 2008
Place of death	Mexico city

[1] Los negocios de Carlos Mouriño Atanés ( Memento of the original of November 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CNN expansion.com, July 12, 2007 (Spanish) @1@ 2

[2] Mexico's interior minister killed in helicopter crash - The Telegraph - Nov 11, 2011 , AP, November 5, 2008 (English); Muere titular de Segob en accidente aéreo , Hechos TV Azteca , November 4, 2008 (Spanish); Aumentan a 14 las víctimas del siniestro aéreo en México , El Comercio , November 8, 2008 (Spanish).