Baja California,officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California,is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952,the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 km2 (27,071 sq mi) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula,north of the 28th parallel,plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean;on the east by Sonora,the U.S. state of Arizona,and the Gulf of California;on the north by the U.S. state of California;and on the south by Baja California Sur.
Jorge Hank Rhon is a Mexican businessman and owner of Mexico's largest sports betting company,Grupo Caliente. He served from December 2004 to February 2007 as the president of the municipality of Tijuana. He is the son of former Mexico City mayor Carlos Hank González and Guadalupe Rhon. Hank family has alleged links to drug trafficking. He has been accused of money laundering,murder,arrested for possession of unlicensed arms and dealing in the trade of exotic animals.
Eugenio Elorduy Walther was a Mexican politician. He was governor of his adoptive state of Baja California from November 1,2001 to October 31,2007. His wife Maria Elena Blackaller served as first lady and had 4 children with Eugenio. Mariela,Erika,Eugenio,and Ernesto continue to carry out his remembrance today.
The governor of Baja California represents the executive branch of the government of the state of Baja California,Mexico,per the state's constitution. The official title is "Free and Sovereign State of Baja California",and the position is democratically elected for a period of 6 years,and is not re-electable. From 1953 to 2019,the governor's term began November 1 of the year of the election and finishes October 31,six years later. To coincide with the federal elections,the law was changed,decreeing there would be an election in 2019,another in 2021,and yet another in 2024 before reverting to a six-year term.
Alejandro González Alcocer is a Mexican politician and lawyer,belonging to the National Action Party (PAN).
Héctor Téran Terán was a Mexican politician,member of the National Action Party (PAN),and Governor of Baja California.
Local elections were held in the Mexican State of Baja California on Sunday,August 5,2007. According to the preliminary results program,JoséGuadalupe Osuna Millán of the Alliance for Baja California (APBC) was elected governor by a 7% margin over candidate Jorge Hank Rohn of the Alliance for a Better Life (APVM). Results for APBC in municipalities and congressional seats were better than expected including victory for mayor of Tijuana which Jorge Hank Rohn's occupied previous to the electoral campaign.
Fernando Jorge "El Diablo" Castro Trenti is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the LX and the LXI Legislatures as senator representing the State of Baja California.
JoséGuadalupe Osuna Millán is a Mexican economist and politician member of the National Action Party (PAN) who served as Governor of Baja California.
Operation Tijuana or Operation Baja California of the Government of Mexico is taking place in Tijuana and the surrounding areas of Baja California and Baja California Sur. This operation is part of the Joint Operation Against Drug Trafficking.
Jorge Ramos Hernández is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. He currently serves as a deputy representing the fourth federal electoral district of Baja California in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
The Fifth Federal Electoral District of Baja California(V Distrito Electoral Federal de Baja California) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of eight such districts in the state of Baja California.
Jaime Bonilla Valdez is a Mexican politician and entrepreneur who served as the Governor of Baja California from 2019 to 2021. A member of the National Regeneration Movement party,he has been a Federal Congressman and a Senator of the Republic.
Events in the year 1989 in Mexico.
Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío is a Mexican politician currently affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. He is the governor of Baja California Sur.
Gastón Luken Garza is a Mexican entrepreneur and politician. He has been president of the State Electoral Institute of Baja California,comptroller general of the government of Mexico City,citizen advisor for the Federal Electoral Institute and congressmen for the National Action Party (PAN) in the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress. In 2016,he was the first independent candidate to run for mayor of Tijuana.
Social Encounter Party was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition Juntos Haremos Historia with the National Regeneration Movement and Mexico's Labor Party for the 2018 Mexican election.
Eligio Esquivel Méndez was a Mexican politician and engineer who served as the Governor of Baja California from 1959 to 1964.
Lina Acosta Cid is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. She served in the LVIII and LXI Lesiglatures of the Congress of Sonora.
