Coahuila,formally Coahuila de Zaragoza,officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza,is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
The Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous University or Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro in Spanish (UAAAN) is a public university in Mexico dedicated to the Agricultural,Silvicultural,Animal Production,food and Environmental Sciences. It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Saltillo,in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous University is one of the most important agricultural colleges of Latin America,and the "Narro" has national and international recognition in the agricultural and animal industry and the high academic level. There is also a campus in Torreón,Coahuila. It is also called "Universidad Antonio Narro" for short,or simply,"La Narro". In 2008 the UAAAN had an enrollment of about 4,500 students in both campuses,all in agriculture and related sciences.
Humberto Moreira Valdés is a Mexican politician who served as President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of the State of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011.
Fernando de las Fuentes Hernández is a Mexican lawyer,entrepreneur and politician,affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
JoséNarro Robles is a Mexican physician,researcher,academic,and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20,2007. After two 4-year periods leading UNAM,in February 2016,he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health.
Saltillo is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City,Monterrey,and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and highway. As of a 2020 census,Saltillo had a population of 879,958 people,while the population of its metropolitan area was 1,031,779,making Saltillo the largest city in the state of Coahuila,and the 14th most populated metropolitan area in the country.
Rodolfo Torre Cantú was a Mexican physician and politician. He held a number of public offices,such as Federal deputy,Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas and Director-general of the DIF in Ciudad Victoria. While running for governor of Tamaulipas as the candidate of the PRI,he was assassinated,apparently by agents of a drug cartel. Torre was murdered alongside a Tamaulipas lawmaker,Enrique Blackmore,on 28 June 2010 near Ciudad Victoria,which is approximately three hours south of Brownsville,Texas. Felipe Calderón promised a full investigation,saying,"the fight against drug cartels must continue". He further stated,"This was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions,and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy." Torre's assassination is the "highest-profile case of political violence" in Mexico since the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Joséde las Fuentes Rodríguez was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He served as the Governor of Coahuila from December 1,1981,to November 1,1987.
General Vito Alessio Robles was a Mexican military officer,engineer,writer,journalist,diplomat,and academic who participated in the Mexican Revolution. He was one of the country's leading historians,as well as a politician,serving as a senator and opposition party leader. His work on the history of Coahuila y Tejas,in three volumes,is notable. He was temperamentally a public prosecutor and as a critic he spoke and wrote with total frankness. He is credited as the first generation of romantic revolutionaries of Mexico who dreamed and put to action the civic movement which would ensure better opportunities open to the people of Mexico.
Antonio Juan Marcos Issa is a businessman of Mexico.
Javier Guerrero García is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He represented Coahuila and the second electoral region as a deputy in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
JericóAbramo Masso is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the 2024 general election he was elected to his fourth term in the Chamber of Deputies.
Events in the year 1999 in Mexico.
Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the current Governor of Coahuila.
Nelson Terán is a Mexican singer and composer who has excelled in genres such as folk songs and Latin American folklore,modern and contemporary trova and regional Mexican music.
Elena Huerta Múzquiz, also known as Elena Huerta de Arenal was a Mexican artist,she was best known for her mural work in her hometown of Saltillo,Coahuila,Mexico. Most of her art career was dedicated to teaching,but she was one of the founders of the Compañía de Teatro Infantil with German Cueto,Lola Cueto,Angelina Beloff and Leopoldo Méndez,the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
XHDE-FM is a radio station on 105.7 FM in Arteaga,Coahuila,Mexico. It is owned by Grupo Imagen but operated by Multimedios Radio,which known as La Lupe with a Variety hits format.
The House of Narro is a Spanish noble lineage originally from Guipuzcoa,Basque Country. From there,it spread to various provinces and Spanish kingdoms,particularly to Catalonia,the current Rioja,Avila and America.
