Felipe calderon biography
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Calderón, Felipe
Felipe Calderón (born 1962), candidate of the conservative Partido Acción Nacional (National Action Party, known by the acronym PAN), was elected president of Mexico in July of 2006, after a bitter campaign whose almost-deadlocked result was contested and protested for months after the vote took place. At 44, Calderón was one of the youngest presidents in Mexican history.
Supporters of Calderón's chief rival, leftist Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, painted Calderón as the candidate of Mexico's corporate elites and as a child of privilege out of touch with the aspirations of the country's poor. Calderón responded that the free market economic policies he proposed would be the most effective in alleviating poverty. Whatever the merits of each position in the economic debate, the portrayal of Calderón as a scion of elite power was not entirely accurate. For he was a member of a political family that had helped bring modern democracy itself to Mexi
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Felipe Calderón (Filipino politician)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gonzáles Calderón and the second or maternal family name is Roca.
Felipe Calderón | |
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| In office September 15, 1898 – November 13, 1899 Serving with Domingo Colmenar | |
| Born | Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca (1868-04-04)4 April 1868[1] Santa Cruz de Malabon, Cavite, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire |
| Died | 6 June 1908(1908-06-06) (aged 40) Manila, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Santo Tomas |
| Occupation | lawyer, social scientist,[2] Writer, politician and revolutionary leader |
| Known for | Father of the Malolos Constitution[3] |
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca, also known as Felipe G. Calderon (April 4, 1868 – June 6, 1908) was a Filipinolawyer, politician, and intellectual, known as the "Father of the Malolos Constitution
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Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa (born 18 August 1962) was The President of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012, succeeding Vicente Fox and preceding Enrique Pena Nieto. He was a member of the National Action Party. Calderon's presidency was marked by an Controversial Election where his Opponents accused Him of Electoral Fraud And the start of the Mexican Drug War, in which the Mexican government - backed by the United States Government- began a crackdown using the Armed Forces (Army,Airforce and Navy) on the powerful drug cartels, leading to 83,191 deaths during Calderon's term alone.
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Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa was born in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico on 18 August 1962, the son of PAN co-founder Luis Calderon Vega. The young Calderon was active in his father's campaigns, and he studied at the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico and Harvard University. Calderon would soon rise to prominence in the PAN, serving as its national president