Mario Moya Palencia

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Mario Moya Palencia (born June 14, 1933 in Mexico City , † October 9, 2006 ) was a Mexican diplomat and politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), diplomat.

biography

After attending school, Moya Palencia completed a law degree at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , which he completed in 1959 with a bachelor's degree and admission to the bar. He also completed postgraduate studies in Mexican history . After working as a lawyer in Mexico City , he became a member of the PRI and then began a civil service career in government administration and in the Ministry of the Interior ( Secretaría de Gobernación ), where he quickly made a career. After working as head of department, he was vice director for real estate in the National Estate Administration (Patrimonio Nacional). From 1964 to 1968 he was Director General for Radio , Television and Cinema before he was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior for a year . Before that he was for a short time general director of the paper production and import company (PIPSA).

In 1969 he was appointed Minister of the Interior by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz to succeed Luis Echeverría Álvarez . This office, the second highest office after that of the President, he held until 1976 in the subsequent government of the current President Echeverría Álvarez. During his tenure there was a bloody suppression of student unrest on June 10, 1971 (Matanza del Jueves de Corpus). The investigations brought against him were finally closed in 2005 due to a statute of limitations. In 1976 he was named as one of the possible candidates for the successor to President Echeverria, but was defeated in the nomination by the previous Finance Minister José López Portillo .

After retiring from politics, he was first general director of the publishing company Organización Editorial Mexicana between 1977 and 1979 and then until 1982 of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (FONATUR)).

He was later ambassador to the United Nations (UN) from 1988 to 1989 and to Cuba from 1990 to 1993 . From 1994 to 2001 he was then ambassador to Italy as well as temporarily special envoy in Central America and the Caribbean for questions of regional cooperation .

Publications

  • La reforma electoral , 1964
  • Madre Africa: Presencia del Africa Negra en el Mexico y Veracruz Antiguos , ISBN 970-701-701-5
  • El Penacho de Moctezuma
  • Temas constitucionales , 1988
  • Democracia y participación política , 1982
  • El México de Egerton (1831-1842) , 1990, ISBN 978-968-84224-0-3
  • ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! , 1992
  • Los ojos del tiempo , 1993
  • El Zorro Enjaulado , 1996, ISBN 968-84262-1-0
  • El regimen municipal (PDF file; 934 kB)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Schlefer: Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico. 2008, ISBN 0-292-71758-X , p. 143 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Leslie Bethell: The Cambridge History of Latin America. 1990, ISBN 0-521-24518-4 , p. 133 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ The Special Prosecutor for the Social and Political Movements of the Past , in: Current Situation in Mexico February-July 2004
personal data
SURNAME Moya Palencia, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2006