Guanajuato is a municipality in central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name. It is part of the macroregion of the Bajío. It is located in a narrow valley,which makes its streets narrow and winding. Most are alleys that cars cannot pass through,and some are long sets of stairs up the mountainsides. Many of the city's thoroughfares are partially or fully underground. The historic center has numerous small plazas and colonial-era mansions,churches,and civil constructions built using pink or green sandstone. The city historic center and the adjacent mines were proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.
Guanajuato,officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato,is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato.
Juan Carlos Romero Hicks is a Mexican politician and elected official,member of the National Action Party,and a Federal Senator since August 29,2012. He was the Director General of the Mexican National Science and Technology Council (CONACyT) from 2006 to 2011. He served as Governor of Guanajuato from 2000 to 2006. From 1991 to 1999 he served as Chancellor of the University of Guanajuato.
A local election was held in the Mexican state of Guanajuato on Sunday,July 2,2006. Voters went to the polls to elect,on the local level:
The Congress of the State of Guanajuato is the legislative branch of the government of the State of Guanajuato. The Congress is the governmental deliberative body of Guanajuato,which is equal to,and independent of,the executive.
Miguel Ángel Chico Herrera is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was President of the party,charge that he held from 2005 to 2009. In March 2006 he became the PRI candidate to the governorship of Guanajuato,for the 2006 Guanajuato elections held on July 2,2006. Chico has also run to mayor of Celaya,local deputy and federal deputy. He has been director of the newspaper El Sol del Bajío in his native Guanajuato. He is currently a Local Congressman for the State of Guanajuato and the representative of all Local Congress in Mexico before the America's Parliamentary Confederation (COPA)
Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party PAN who served as Governor of Guanajuato from 2006 to 2012.
Ramón Muñóz Gutiérrez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He served as a Senator in the LX and LXI Legislatures of the Congress of Mexico.
Luis Alberto Villarreal García is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. He served as a Senator representing Guanajuato and coordinator of the National Action Party Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies LXII Legislature until August 13,2014.
JoséÁngel Córdova Villalobos is a Mexican politician who served as Secretary of Health and Secretary of Public Education during Felipe Calderón administration.
María Teresa Pomar (1919-2010) was a collector,researcher and promoter of Mexican handcrafts and folk art along with the communities associated with them. She began as a collector then working with museums to promote handcrafts and then working to found a number of museums and other organizations to the same purpose. She became one of Mexico’s foremost experts on the subject,serving as director of different organizations and judge at competitions in Mexico and abroad. She died in 2010 while she was serving as the director of the Museo Universitario de Artes Populares of the University of Colima,which changed its name to honor her.
Gerardo Sánchez García is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. He currently serves as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. He also served as Deputy during the LXI Legislature,as well as the municipal president of Salvatierra,Guanajuato.
Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena,also known as MalúMícher,is a Mexican politician affiliated with National Regeneration Movement (Morena). She is currently a senator representing the state of Guanajuato in the 64th and 65th Congresses. She fwas
Diego SinhuéRodríguez Vallejo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) who is currently the governor of Guanajuato. He previously represented his state as a federal deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Ricardo Villarreal García is a Mexican politician and lawyer member of the PAN. In 2013 he served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Guanajuato. He was the municipal president of San Miguel de Allende from 2015 to 2018,time during which the City won the title of Best City in the World by Travel&Leisure Magazine. He was also president of the Association of Mexican World Heritage Cities in 2017 and Vice-president of the Organization of World Heritage Cities. He is currently Deputy of the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing District 02 of Guanajuato.
Ricardo Torres Origel was a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. He served as a Senator of the LX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Guanajuato. He also served as federal deputy during the LVIII Legislature,as well as a local deputy in the LVII Legislature of the Congress of Guanajuato.
JoséErandi Bermúdez Méndez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN).
Alejandra NoemíReynoso Sánchez is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party (PAN). From 2009 to 2011 she served as a plurinomial deputy in the 61st Congress,representing the second region,which includes her home state of Guanajuato.
Yulma Rocha Aguilar is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She represents the ninth district of Guanajuato in the Chamber of Deputies for the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
María Luisa Mendoza,also known as La China Mendoza,was a Mexican journalist,novelist and politician. She served as a federal delegate from the state of Guanajuato to the 53rd Mexican legislature.
