Juan Molinar Horcasitas

Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas (born December 18, 1955 in Chihuahua , † May 20, 2015 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican political scientist , university professor and politician of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), who was General Director of the Institute for Social Security between 2006 and 2009 IMSS ( Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ) and then from 2009 to 2011 Minister for Communication and Transport SCT ( Secretarío de Comunicaciones y Transportes ) in the government ofPresident Felipe Calderón was.

Life

Degree, university professor and author

After attending school, Molinar Horcasitas studied political science at El Colegio de México (COLMEX), which he completed with a master's degree. He finished another postgraduate degree in political science at the University of California with a doctorate. He then worked as a university lecturer and held professorships at COLMEX, at the Independent Technological Institute of Mexico ITAM ( Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ) , at the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) , at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana ( UAM) as well as at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO ( Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales ) .

In addition to non-fiction books such as El tiempo de la legitimidad: Elecciones, autoritarismo y democracia en México (1991), he published numerous articles on political science, parties and electoral systems in academic journals and books in Mexico, but also in the USA and the UK . He has also written articles for the daily newspaper El Universal , one of the highest-circulation newspapers in the country, and was also a participant in programs for the television station Multivisión and article writer for the magazine Reforma .

Under-Secretary of State and Member of Parliament

In the 1994 elections, Molinar Horcasitas acted as administrative director for law and political parties at the IFE ( Instituto Federal Electoral ) and was then a member of the IFE's electoral council (Consejero Electoral) between November 1996 and November 2000 , which is responsible for conducting the elections of the Country is responsible.

During the tenure of President Vicente Fox from December 1, 2000 to May 2002, he was Undersecretary of State for Political Development (Subsecretario de Desarrollo Político) in the SEGOB ( Secretaría de Gobernación ) Ministry of the Interior . After a temporary resumption of his teaching activity, he became spokesman for the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) in July 2003 and was elected a member of the House of Representatives (Cámara de Diputados) , the lower house of the Congress of the Union (Congreso de la Unión), in the subsequent elections. . During his membership in parliament he was the coordinator for economic affairs of the PAN group in the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2006 .

Molinar Horcasitas was part of the PAN candidate Felipe Calderón's campaign team for the presidential election of July 2, 2006 , and was the coordinator of political research and analysis.

Director General of IMSS and the Hermosillo Tragedy

After Calderón's election victory, Horcasitas was appointed by him on December 1, 2006 to succeed Fernando Flores y Pérez as General Director of the Institute for Social Security IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) . He held this position as General Director of the IMSS, which, in addition to the Institute for Security and Social Services ISSTE ( Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado ), which is responsible for state officials, ensures the social security of around 60 percent of the population Replacement by Daniel Karam Toumeh on March 4, 2009.

A few months after Horcasitas resigned from the position of General Director of the IMSS, the tragedy of Hermosillo , the capital of the state of Sonora, broke out . In a major fire in a kindergarten in the city on June 5, 2009, a Friday, 43 small children were killed. In the following period the improvement of the fire protection regulations for such facilities was discussed in the Mexican public. Horcasitas was initially accused of joint responsibility for the tragedy, as the IMSS was the operator of the kindergarten. Ultimately, the Supreme Court of Mexico SCJN ( Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación ) acquitted him of these allegations after hearings in June 2010.

Minister for Communication and Transport

Molinar Horcasitas himself was appointed the day before on March 3, 2009 by President Calderón as part of a cabinet reshuffle as the successor to Luis Téllez Minister of Communications and Transport SCT (Secretarío de Comunicaciones y Transportes) . He held this ministerial post until he was replaced by Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione on January 7, 2011 when the government was reshuffled again.

In the following presidential election on July 1, 2012 , he was also part of the campaign team of the PAN candidate, Josefina Vázquez Mota , who, however, after the election winner Enrique Peña Nieto of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), received 18,727,398 votes (38, 15 percent), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), who received 15,535,117 votes (31.64 percent), only came third with 12,473,106 votes (25.40 percent) occupied.

In October 2013, Molinar Horcasitas was appointed director of the Fundación Rafael Preciado Hernández , a foundation named after one of the co-founders of the Partido Acción Nacional.

Publications

• El tiempo de la legitimidad: Elecciones, autoritarismo y democracia en México , 1991
• Los procedimientos legislativos en la Cámara de Diputados, 1917-1964 , 2009

Web links

• Biography as Director General of the IMSS ( Memento of December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the Federal Government's website
• Proof of publication in the Open Library
• The exsecretario mexicano Juan Molinar Horcasitas. Afrontó una de las peores tragedias del país, el incendio de la guardería ABC en Sonora, en el que murieron 49 niños y 75 resultaron lesionados . In: El Diario of May 21, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The number of victims in the daycare fire rises to 42 deaths. In: welt.de. June 8, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 . 
2. ↑  : Kita fire in Mexico: rain of fire dripped down on children. In: zeit.de. June 8, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 . 
3. ^ Thousands protest in Hermosillo, Mexico. Citizens demand justice for daycare center tragedy . In: Ohmy News of June 17, 2009
4. ↑ Death list of the Procuraduría General de Justicia (PGJE Nota dated: 07/06/2009 21:50) ( Memento of the original dated January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.