Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
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Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (
December 2, 1949 – June 5, 2005) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to PresidentUN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq
.
Born in
philanthropist
.
Aguilar studied law at the
Marxist ideology, and he headed Luis Echeverría's Center for Economic and Social Studies of the Third World
during the mid-1970s.
He was elected to the
Green Ecological Party of Mexico
(PVEM).
Following
Vicente Fox's election to the Presidency (representing a coalition of the National Action Party
and the PVEM) on July 2, 2000, Aguilar served as the transition team's advisor on international affairs. After taking office, Fox appointed Aguilar his national security advisor.
In January 2002, Fox appointed Aguilar Mexico's permanent representative to the
Security Council
and, in accordance with the Security Council's rules of procedure, he served as its president for two one-month terms.
Following a speech to students at Mexico City's
spun in the media to imply that Aguilar himself believed that Mexico was the US's backyard and was thus unworthy to represent the country at the UN. The speech served as a pretext to fire him and placate the US, although Mexico never gave the US what it wanted: support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
.
After leaving the UN, Aguilar received an honorary degree from Ricardo Palma University (Peru) and hosted a weekly current-affairs show on television. He died in a car accident near his summer chalet in Tepoztlán, Morelos, on June 5, 2005, at the age of 55.
In the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War he was the subject of an episode of the BBC series 10 Days to War, in which he was played by Tom Conti.
External links
- (in Spanish) Profile in El Universal.
- "Former Mexican U.N. Envoy Killed in Wreck", ABC News.
- Obituary in The Economist.