Miguel Limón Rojas

Miguel Limón Rojas (born December 17, 1943 in Mexico City ) is a former Mexican politician .

Life

Miguel Limón Rojas holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a doctorate in law from the University of Aix-Marseille . He then worked as a researcher at UNAM and later became a professor at the Chair of Constitutional Law. He later moved to the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco (UAM Azcapotzalco), where he was also professor and dean of the Faculty of Law and head of the social sciences department. In 1978 he became an advisor to the then Education Minister Fernando Solana and was then Academic Secretary of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN) between 1978 and 1981 .

Limón Rojas then moved to the Ministry of Education during the tenure of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado , where from 1982 to 1985 he was General Director of the Vocational Training Department and Undersecretary for Education Planning. Subsequently, he was the coordinator of the Education Commission of the National Development Plan and, between 1983 and 1988, Director General of the National Institute for Indigenous Peoples (Instituto Nacional Indigenista) , today's National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas) . In the following term of office of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , he served between 1989 and 1993 as Undersecretary for Population and Migration Services in the Ministry of the Interior. He was also President of the Mexican Section of the International Development Organization and a representative in the United Nations Sub-Commission on Preventing Discrimination and Protecting Minorities . In 1994 he was briefly an environmental lawyer in the Ministry of Social Development.

After President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León took office on December 1, 1994, Miguel Limón Rojas was appointed Minister for Agricultural Reforms ( Secretarío de la Reforma Agraria ) in his government. He held this office until 1995 and was then replaced by Arturo Warman . In the course of this government reshuffle, he himself became Minister of Public Education ( Secretarío de Educación Pública ) on January 23, 1995 as the successor to Fausto Alzati . He held this ministerial office until the end of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León's tenure on November 30, 2000. After leaving the government, he was head of the study and consultancy company Valora and in 2003 became President of the Foundation for the Literature of Mexico (Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas) .

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 Prabook
• Entry in Rulers