The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party,then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946. The party held uninterrupted power in the country and controlled the presidency twice:the first one was for 71 years,from 1929 to 2000,the second was for six years,from 2012 to 2018.
Arturo Montiel Rojas is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was a governor of the State of México and a federal deputy. He contested the PRI's nomination for President of Mexico in the 2006 election before dropping out.
The Centro Nacional de Inteligencia or CNI,is a Mexican intelligence agency controlled by the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection.
Enrique Peña Nieto,commonly referred to by his initials EPN,is a Mexican retired politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),he previously served as Governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011,local deputy from 2003 to 2004,and Secretary of Administration from 2000 to 2002.
The governor of the State of Mexico wields executive power in the State of Mexico.
Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa is a Mexican-American politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and former Secretary of Agriculture,Livestock,Rural Development,Fisheries and Food. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de Monterrey.
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto. He was Governor of Hidalgo until April 2011.
The Mexican Secretariat of Public Security or Secretariat of Public Safety,also known as Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Public Safety,was the federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet that aimed to preserve freedom,order,and public peace and safeguard the integrity and rights of the people. The Assistant Attorney General uses the Powers of the Union to prevent the commission of crimes,develop public security policies of the Federal Executive,propose policies on crime,administer the federal prison system,and administer justice to juvenile offenders based on the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration and other federal laws,regulations,decrees,agreements,and orders of the President of the Republic. It had its headquarters in Álvaro Obregón,Mexico City.
The Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development is Mexico's agriculture ministry. The current secretary under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO),starting December 1,2018,is Víctor Villalobos.
Luis Videgaray Caso is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018. Previously he was the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit,also in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto,from 2012 to 2016. Prior to Peña Nieto's victory in the elections,Videgaray was General Coordinator of his campaign for the 2012 Mexican presidential election. On July 11,2012,Peña Nieto announced Videgaray as the person in charge of promoting the economic reforms and the government agenda's related topics,and on September 4,he named Videgaray as co-head of the team that set policy direction for the new government that took office on December 1,2012.
General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday,1 July 2012. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term,replacing Felipe Calderón,500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 128 members of the Mexican Senate.
Paulina Alejandra del Moral Vela is a Mexican politician. She served as the Deputy Federal District VII in Cuautitlan Izcalli for the period September 1,2012 –August 31,2015,as well as the mayor for the same entity between 2009 and 2012. Vela graduated in Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana and earned a master's degree in Public Administration and Public Policy from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
Ernesto "El Pato" de Lucas Hopkins is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was federal deputy during the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress under the principle of relative majority for the III Federal Electoral District of Sonora. On 10 December 2012 he was appointed CEO of ProMéxico,the Federal Government body that coordinates strategies to strengthen Mexico's participation in the international economy;supports the export process of companies established in Mexico and coordinates actions aimed at attracting foreign investment. On 20 April 2013 he was fired from this post,less than five months from taking over at this office,probably making him the first senior officer to be fired by President Enrique Peña Nieto.
General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term,128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history,with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day,including nine governorships,with over 3,400 positions subject to elections at all levels of government. It was the most violent campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history,with 130 political figures killed since September 2017.
JoséAntonio Meade Kuribreña is a Mexican politician,economist,lawyer,and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister under Presidents Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto in a variety of portfolios,becoming the first Mexican official appointed to cabinet five times. He was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate in the 2018 presidential election,where he placed third.
Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas,is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2015 to which she resigned on 4 January 2017.
Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín is a Mexican politician who was elected as a Senator for the state of Yucatán to the 64th Congress in the July 2018 general election as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was re-elected to the Senate for Yucatán in the June 2024 general election for the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).
Peñabots is the nickname for automated social media accounts allegedly used by the Mexican government of Enrique Peña Nieto and the PRI political party to keep unfavorable news from reaching the Mexican public. Peñabot accusations are related to the broader issue of fake news in the 21st century.
Gerardo Ruiz Esparza,was a Mexican attorney and politician who served as the Secretary of Communications and Transportation in the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto.
Alfredo del Mazo Maza is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Governor of the State of Mexico from 2017 to 2023. Members of del Mazo's family have collectively governed the State of Mexico for 23 years,starting with his grandfather Alfredo del Mazo Vélez (1945-1951);then followed by his father Alfredo del Mazo González (1981-1986) and his cousin Enrique Peña Nieto (2005-2011);adding Arturo Montiel,Peña Nieto's uncle,the del Mazo family's rule extends to 29 years.
