Pd+6+Mexico



**Timeline**  Brian Stutz
 * 1976** - Huge offshore oil reserves are discovered. About 1.033 million barrels of crude oil are imported into the U.S a day.
 * 2000** Vicente Fox of the opposition Alliance for Change wins presidential elections. He was the first opposition candidate ever to do so.
 * 2001** Parliament passes a bill increasing the rights of indigenous people. A few days later, Subcomandante Marcos rejects the bill.
 * 2006** Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon is declared the winner of presidential elections. With a razor-thin majority over his leftist rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who challenges the result with mass street protests.
 * 2006** December - A new federal police force is created to control drugs cartels. Thousands of troops are deployed in the western state of Michoacan as part of a major anti-drug trafficking drive.
 * 2007** Heavy rains flood nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. Some 500,000 are made homeless in one of the country's worst natural disasters.
 * 2008** Drug-related killings soar. Murders linked to organized crime leap to almost 1,400 in first five months of year.
 * 2008** May - Attorney-general Eduardo Medina Mora says more than 4,000 people have been killed in 18 months since President Calderon took office and declared war on drugs cartels. About 450 of the dead are police, soldiers or prosecutors, and many of the killings have been concentrated along the US border.
 * 2009** Authorities close schools and public buildings after dozens are confirmed to have been killed by the virulent new swine flu virus.
 * 2009** December - One of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, Arturo Beltran Leyva, is killed in a shoot-out with state security forces. The authorities put the number of drug-related killings for 2009 at around 6,500, the worst year of bloodshed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels.



Morelia, Michoacán
 * [[image:400px-Felipe_Calderon_20090130.jpg width="258" height="321" align="right"]]Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa**

Personal Information: (Relevant/Interesting Biographical Info.) I am the youngest of five brothers and son of Carmen Hinojosa Calderón and the late Luis Calderón Vega. It was in the National Action Party where I met my wife, Margarita Zavala, who served in Congress as a federal deputy. We have three children, María, Luis Felipe and Juan Pablo. Before becoming president of Mexico, I lived at //Colonia Las Águilas//, in southern-Mexico City. My father was a co-founder of the National Action Party and an important political figure. I occupied state posts and served a term as federal deputy. I spent most of my life working within the party and spent most of his free time promoting the PAN. Career Accomplishments: (Political, Military, etc.) On July 2, 2006, the day of the election, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) announced that the race was too close to call and chose not to make public a large and well-designed exit poll. However, as the preliminary results of the unofficial PREP database made clear the next morning, Felipe Calderón had a small lead of 1.04%. Work Experience: Fulfilling an electoral promise, Ilaunched the First Employment Program, which aims to create new opportunities for people entering the job market. The program will give cash incentives to companies for hiring first-time job holders, including young people graduating from higher education and millions of women who have never worked. The program has been interpreted as an effort to stop immigration into the United States. Reactions to this program have been mixed. The president of the Mexican Association of Directors in Human Relations, Luis García, has anticipated a positive effect and even showed Nextel’s subsidiary in Mexico as an example for hiring 14% of its new workforce in 2006 as people in their "first employment". However, other groups have criticized this program as being insufficient. Secretary of Labor Javier Lozano Alarcón has admitted that the program will be insufficient to create as many new jobs as needed and has called for deeper reforms to allow for further investment.  Education: After growing up in Morelia, I moved to Mexico City, where I received a bachelor's degree in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Later, I received a master's degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Master of Public Administration in 2000 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professional Affiliations and Interests: (what organizations was/is this person involved in?)

The conservative National Action Party (PAN). Calderon used to be the party's president. References: (what other famous people is this person affiliated with?) The Mexican government has also ordered Mexican soldiers and Federal Police into several cities, most notably, Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. In Tijuana and also Ciudad Juárez, the army ordered that all local police officers surrender their weapons, as it is suspected that many officers have ties with drug cartels. Other states where actions have been taken include Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Tabasco, and Guerrero.

Miscellaneous:

I delivered a speech last night about the tragic death of my 37 year-old Secretary of the Interior following the crash of the government Learjet in which he traveled before landing in Mexico City.

POLITICAL CARTOONS BY: TIM GOVENS

 * In this pic it showes that its alot of war in mexico and that the bordreing states are afrade that it might spile into there homes.

In this one the guns are supplied by us so it givies them power to do what they want when they want to and that includes useing the and selling them.