Felipe calderon

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe kaldeˈɾon]; born August 18, 1962) is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012. He is a member of the National Action Party (PAN), one of the three major Mexican political parties.

Calderón's narrow victory at election and ascendancy to thepresidency was fraught with strife and controversy, and actively challenged by his opponents. The results were contested by his closest opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who started what he called a "pacific civil resistance". Calderon's victory was confirmed on September 5, 2006 by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

Prior to the presidency, Calderón actively participated in PAN politics. Hehas served as National President of the Party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy in Vicente Fox's cabinet.
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1 Background and family life
2 Political career
3 Presidential campaign
3.1 Political and social views
4 Post-election controversy
5 Presidency
5.1 Inauguration and cabinet appointments
5.2 Domestic policy5.3 Foreign policy
5.3.1 Immigration reform
5.4 Economic policy
5.4.1 Tortilla Price Stabilization Pact
5.4.2 First Employment Program
5.4.3 Public servants salary cap
5.5 Security policy
5.6 Approval ratings
6 Orders, awards and recognition
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Background and family lifeUnited States President Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderón following their meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009.

Felipe Calderón Hinojosa was born in Michoacán. He is the youngest of five brothers and son of Carmen Hinojosa Calderón and the late Luis Calderón Vega.

His father was a co-founder of the National Action Party and an importantpolitical figure. He occupied state posts and served a term as federal deputy. Calderón spent most of his life working within the party and spent most of his free time promoting the PAN.

After growing up in Morelia, Calderón moved to Mexico City, where he received a bachelor's degree in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Later, he received a master's degree in economics from the InstitutoTecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Master of Public Administration in 2000 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[3]

Following his father's example, he joined the PAN. His father had quit in 1981.

It was in the National Action Party where Calderón met his wife, Margarita Zavala, who served in Congress as a federal deputy. They have three children, María, LuisFelipe and Juan Pablo. Before becoming president of Mexico, he lived in Colonia Las Águilas, in southern Mexico City.[4]

[edit] Political career

Calderón was president of the PAN's youth movement in his early twenties.

He was a local representative in the Legislative Assembly and, on two different occasions, in the federal Chamber of Deputies. He ran for the governorship of Michoacán in1995 and served as national president of the PAN from 1996 to 1999. During his tenure, his party maintained control of 14 state capitals, but also lost presence in the federal Chamber of Deputies.

Soon after Vicente Fox took office as president, Calderón was appointed director of Banobras, a state-owned development bank. He was accused by political opponents of committing abuse during histenure, by using a legal process[5] to borrow between three[5] and five million pesos[6] (the amount varies according to the source) to pay for his home acquisition at Las Águilas, a high-class neighborhood in Mexico City.[4] After political accusations over the matter arose, he stopped and instead went about the acquisition through different means.[6]

Later on, he joined the presidential cabinet...