Marcelo Ebrard
5th Head of Government of the Federal District
Incumbent
Assumed office December 5, 2006
Preceded by	Alejandro Encinas
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-10) October 10, 1959 (age 52) Mexico City
Political party	Party of the Democratic Revolution
Residence	Mexico City
Website	Marcelo Ebrard

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Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (born October 10, 1959) is the current Head of Government of the Federal District since December 5, 2006. He is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who served as Secretary-General of the former Mexican Federal District Department, minister of public security and minister of social development of the Mexican capital. In 2010, Ebrard was nominated as the "world's best mayor" by the Project World Mayor.^[1] He was the successful candidate of the PRD-led electoral alliance to serve as Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election. Since 2009, he is the Chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change.

Personal life and education[link]

Ebrard is the son of architect Marcelo Ebrard Maure and Marcela Casaubón. He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México, and specialized in public administration and planning at the École nationale d'administration of France. He was married to Francesca Ramos Morgan and had two daughters and one son: Francesca, Anne Dominique, and Marcelo Ebrard Ramos.^{[citation needed]} He later divorced and married Mexican soap-opera actress Mariagna Pratts. In April 2011, Marcelo Ebrard announced his divorce from Mariagna Pratts through an official press release.^[2] In October 7, 2011; Ebrard married for the third time, with Rosalinda Bueso, former Honduras ambassador to Mexico.^[3]

Political career[link]

Ebrard became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1978. After volunteering in the presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1982, serving as an advisor to the secretary-general in 1988 and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, Ebrard Casaubon left the PRI with Manuel Camacho in 1995 to found the now-extinct Party of the Democratic Center (PCD). In 2000 he briefly campaigned for the 2000 Head of Government election for the PCD before stepping down in March 2000 and throwing his support behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the candidate of the multi-party Alliance for Mexico City.

Following the election, he joined López Obrador's cabinet as secretary of public security in 2000 and became a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution on September 12, 2004.

On July 8, 2006 French newspaper Le Monde ran an article indicating that Ebrard as an emerging leader of the Mexican Left. Manuel Camacho, for whom Ebrard is a political protégé, has a reputation for running articles in foreign newspapers to indicate his political intentions.^{[citation needed]} Many have seen this as an attempt to dismiss López Obrador and now rely on Ebrard to win the presidency in the 2012 presidential elections. [1] On December 7, 2010, he was awarded the World Mayor prize in recognition of his environmental and civil-rights initiatives within the Federal District.^[4]

2006 Head of Government election[link]

Ebrard ran as the PRD's candidate for Head of Government in the Federal District election held on July 2, 2006, which he won with 47% of the votes.

Nahuatl revival[link]

Ebrand has stated as a goal the revival of the Nahuatl language. His plan calls for city workers to learn the language as an initial effort in reviving the language.^[5]

Controversy[link]

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The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004. After a thorough investigation, López Obrador gave Ebrard a vote of confidence, despite a request from President Fox that López Obrador relieve him of his duties. Later, using his constitutional powers, Fox fired Ebrard, in what critics believe was a politically motivated move to derail his political future.^[6][7] Ramón Huerta was also implicated in the incident, yet Fox gave Huerta his full support, and did not remove him from office. For this incident Ebrard is currently under investigation, as are the federal authorities that also failed to act. He was later reinstated as Secretary of Social Development by López Obrador.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano (1992), Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico

External links[link]

• (Spanish) Marcelo Ebrard's Official Website
• CityMayors profile
• (Spanish) Marcelo Ebrard at esmas.com
• (French) Le Monde Article on Le Monde proclaiming Ebrard as the new leader of the Mexican Left
• Wedding and Divorce Article on El Universal on how Manuel Camacho will dismiss López Obrador in favor of Marcelo Ebrard.
• Article on El Universal on Ebrard's wedding registry
• (Spanish) Recibe el PRD capitalino pruebas de la afiliación de Marcelo Ebrard ("The Federal District PRD chapter received Marcelo Ebrard's proof of membership"), article on La Jornada

Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez (b. October 17, 1976 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican journalist. He is a popular news anchor in Mexico, hosting a show called Primero Noticias (1: N) on Televisa channel 2, as well as a news radio show "Back" on Radio Formula.^[1][2]

He has appeared as a guest on the Spanish-language version of Sesame Street called Plaza Sesamo, in season 10.^[3][4]

Bibliography[link]

• El Negocio: La economía de México atrapada por el narcotráfico (2002). Roughly translated as, "The Business: Mexico's economy caught in the drug trade".

External links[link]

• Carlos Loret de Mola at the Internet Movie Database
• Carlos Loret de Mola en EsMas.com

References[link]

1. ^ "Conductores: Carlos Loret de Mola". EsMas.com. http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/conductores/290199.html. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
2. ^ "Twitter feed for Carlos Loret de Mola". Twitter. http://twitter.com/carlosloret. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "Biography reads as: Periodista, conductor de los informativos Primero Noticias en Televisa (6-9am, Canal 2) y Contraportada en Radio Fórmula (6-8 pm 104.1FM)." 
3. ^ "Plaza Sésamo, notable guest stars". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_S%C3%A9samo#Notable_guest_stars. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
4. ^ "Muppet Wiki: Carlos Loret de Mola". http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Carlos_Loret_de_Mola. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 

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Carmen Aristegui

Carmen Aristegui (b. January 18, 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican journalist born in Mexico City. She graduated from Mexico's Universidad Nacional Autónoma with a degree in communication sciences. She is the anchor of the news program Aristegui at CNN en Español and until recently did the morning news program on MVS Radio 102.5 FM of Mexico City.

Carmen Aristegui has almost 16 years of experience as an anchor and reporter on leading radio and television programs in Mexico.

In radio, she has participated in MVS's Para Empezar ("To Begin With") W Radio's Hoy X Hoy ("Nowadays") and Grupo Imagen's Imagen Informativa (Informative Image). On television, at MVS's En Blanco y Negro ("Black and White") and Círculo Rojo ("Red Circle") on Televisa, "Primer Plano" on Canal 11 and "Noticias Canal 52, with Javier Solorzano."

Carmen Aristegui is recognized as an expert on national politics. For over five years, Aristegui hosted the Federal Electoral Institute's special political programming. In 1997, she also acted as an advisor to a civic group involved in the first election for the head of government in the Mexican Republic's capital.

Aristegui has received the Mexican Press Club's "National Award" in 2001, 2002, and 2004, and in 2003 she was recognized as the "Best National Anchor" and presented with a Public Image Award. She was also named "2004 Woman of the Year" by Mont Blanc, and was selected to carry the Olympic Torch through Mexico as part of its global journey to Athens that same year. In 2005, Aristegui received recognition from the National Institute of Indigenous Languages for her promotion of the indigenous languages of Mexico.

In 2008, she received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize.

In February 2011, her contract with MVS Radio was terminated, a move seen by protesters as authoritarian.

She was reinstated a few days after without any official statement by MVS Radio.

Return to FM radio[link]

MVS Radio and Carmen Aristegui reached an agreement in early 2009 to start a new radio show on the broadcaster's Noticias frequency. The daily show from 6:00 to 10:00 AM deals with issues in much more depth than her twenty-minute TV show for CNN. Guests on this program include various Mexican political figures, such as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Roberto Madrazo Pintado, and several senators and governors. The show was also the platform for the release of an interview with former president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado in which he stated his disappointment in his successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, because of the latter's family's corruption and links to drug cartels.

On 7 February 2011 her contract with MVS was terminated over a news report in which she invites president Calderón to respond to accusations of alcoholism made by political opponents waving a banner in the Chamber of Deputies.^[1] MVS, on a brief statement said "no news are made by rumors, our ethics code was broken, so our relationship with reporter Aristegui was terminated". She was reinstated a few days after without any official statement by MVS Radio or Aristegui. ^[2]

External links[link]

• Carmen Aristegui profile at CNN.com
• A case study on Aristegui's dismissal in 2011, The University of Oxford
• AristeguiNoticias, her news site

References[link]