Mario Ramón Beteta
Mario Ramón Beteta Monsalve (born July 7, 1927 in Mexico City ; † October 6, 2004 ibid) was a Mexican politician of the Party of Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) and banking and economic manager who, among other things, from 1975 to 1976 Minister of Finance ( Secretarío de Hacienda ) and Governor of the State of México between 1987 and 1989 .
Life
Studies, university professor and ministerial official
Beteta was the son of Ignacio Beteta Quintana , who was Chief of Staff (Estado Mayor Presidencial) of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río between 1934 and 1939 and then Minister for Public Education ( Secretarío de Educación Pública ) in his government from 1939 to 1940 , and a nephew by his brother Ramón Beteta , who was also finance minister between 1946 and 1952 and was ambassador several times. After attending school, he began to study law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which he completed on December 4, 1948 with a thesis on responsibility for unlawful acts with a licentiate (Licenciado) . In addition to his studies, he worked as a teacher at secondary schools No. 8 and No. 10 in Mexico City between 1945 and 1948. After a brief post as a research fellow at the Central Bank ( Banco de México ) , he completed a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , which he obtained on June 16, 1950 with a thesis on the institutional focus on economic planning with a Master of Arts (MA Economics).
After his return to Mexico he took over a professorship for monetary theory at the economics faculty of the UNAM in 1951 and taught there until 1959. At the same time he held the chair there for the introduction to economics between 1954 and 1956. At the same time, he worked for the Banco de México from 1956 and was initially a consultant in the general director's office and assistant to the board of directors before he was last manager there from 1960 to 1963. He then moved to the Ministry of Finance in 1964 and was initially head of the credit department until 1970 and then under-secretary in the Ministry of Finance between 1970 and 1975. On 28 June 1972 he became a member of the advisory board of the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) belonging to the Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies IEPES (Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Económicos y Sociales) and as such was in this think tank responsible for structural party reforms.
Finance Minister, Economic Manager and Governor
On September 22, 1975, Beteta was finally appointed by President Luis Echeverría Álvarez himself to be Minister of Finance ( Secretarío de Hacienda ) and thus to succeed José López Portillo , who applied to succeed Echeverría Álvarez in the 1976 presidential election. He held the post of finance minister until the end of the term of office of Echeverría Álvarez on November 30, 1976. Successor as finance minister in the subsequent cabinet López Portillo was Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma .
After leaving the government, Beteta was president of the financial institution SOMEX (Sociedad Mexicana de Credito Industrial) between 1976 and 1982 , which was later taken over by Banco Santander . He then took over the post of General Director of the mineral oil company PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) from Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma in 1982 and remained in this position until he was replaced by Francisco Rojas Gutiérrez in 1987.
On November 16, 1987, Beteta succeeded Alfredo Baranda García as governor of the state of México and held this office until September 11, 1989, when Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza was his successor. From 1989 to 1990 he was general manager of Multibanco Comermex , which was later taken over by Scotiabank . He then acted from 1991 to 1994 as General Director of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion FONATUR (Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo) .
Publications
- El sistema bancario mexicano y el banco central. 1964.
- Mario Ramón Beteta. Discursos, conferencias, intervenciones, mesas redondas, declaraciones, 1962–1981. Autobiography. 1982, ISBN 968-499-079-0 .
- Política petrolera. 1987.
- Dos años cumplidos. 1989.
Web links
- Roderic Ai Camp: Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–2009. 4th edition. University of Texas Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-79902-8 . (books.google.de)
- Entry in rulers.org
- Proof of publication ( Open Library )
Individual evidence
- ^ Mexican States: Governors (rulers.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beteta, Mario Ramón |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beteta Monsalve, Mario Ramón (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican politician and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2004 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |