Felipe Calderón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Felipe Calderón

56th President of Mexico

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1962

Place of Birth: Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

Profession: lawyer, politician, economist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Felipe Calderón

  • Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, (Spanish pronunciation: [fe'lipe kalde'?on] (listen); born 19 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 56th President of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012.
  • He was a member of the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) for thirty years before quitting the party in November 2018. Prior to the presidency, Calderón received two master's degrees and went on to work within the PAN while it was still an important opposition party.
  • Calderón served as National President of the party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy in Vicente Fox's cabinet.
  • He served in the cabinet of the previous administration up until he resigned to run for the Presidency and secured his party's nomination. In the 2006 Presidential election, he ran as the PAN candidate.
  • After a heated campaign and a controversial electoral process, the Federal Electoral Institute's official results gave Calderón a tiny lead (less than 1% of advantage of the total votes) above PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
  • While López Obrador and the PRD disputed the results and called for a complete recount of the votes, Calderón's victory was confirmed months later on 5 September 2006, by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.
  • Calderón's inauguration ceremony at the Congress of the Union was tense and lasted less than five minutes, as he only recited the oath of office while the PRD legislators shouted in protest against the alleged electoral fraud, and afterwards he quickly left the building for security reasons as some of the legislators engaged in violent brawls.His presidency was marked by the ignition of the Mexican Drug War, which began almost immediately after he took office, and was considered by many observers as a strategy to gain popular legitimacy for the new President after the convoluted elections.
  • Calderón sanctioned Operation Michoacán, the first large-scale deployment of federal troops against the drug cartels.
  • By the end of his administration, the official number of deaths related to the drug war was at least 60,000.
  • The murder rate skyrocketed during his presidency parallel to that of the ignition of the drug war, with the murder rate peaking in 2010 and decreasing during the last two years of his term. Calderón's term was also marked by the Great Recession, which resulted in a 4.7% drop in gross domestic product for 2009.
  • An economic recovery the following year resulted in growth of 5.11%.
  • In 2007, Calderón established ProMéxico, a public trust fund that promotes Mexico's interests in international trade and investment.
  • The total foreign direct investment during Calderón's presidency was US$70.494 billion.
  • As a result of the countercyclical package passed in 2009 to address the effects of the global recession, the national debt increased from 22.2% to 35% of GDP by December 2012.
  • The poverty rate increased from 43 to 46%.Other significant events during Calderón's presidency include the 2008 passing of criminal justice reforms (fully implemented in 2016), the 2009 flu pandemic, the 2010 establishment of the Agencia Espacial Mexicana, the 2011 founding of the Pacific Alliance and the achievement of universal healthcare through Seguro Popular (passed under the Fox administration) in 2012.
  • Under the Calderón administration sixteen new Protected Natural Areas were created.
  • He began a one-year fellowship at John F.
  • Kennedy School of Government in January 2013, and returned to Mexico following the end of his tenure. He left the National Action Party (PAN) on 11 November 2018, and stated that he intends to form his own political party.

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