Juan Molinar Horcasitas
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Juan Molinar Horcasitas | |
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Born | Chihuahua, Chihuahua | December 18, 1955
Died | May 20, 2015 | (aged 59)
Nationality | Mexican |
Occupation | Politician |
Known for | Former director of the Mexican Social Security Institute |
Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas (18 December 1955 – 20 May 2015) was a
President
Academic career
Molinar completed his undergraduate studies in political science and public administration in the Acatlan National School of Professional Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He attained a master's degree in political science from El Colegio de México and became a PhD candidate in the same field at the University of California, San Diego, United States.
In 1991, he published The time of Legitimacy: elections, authoritarianism and democracy in Mexico. He was a member of the National System of Researchers. He has taught at El Colegio de México, the
Among his publications in academic journals are Counting the Number of Parties: An Alternative Index, published in the American Political Science Review, as well as Schools of interpretation of the Mexican political system, 1988 Elections in Mexico: the crisis of authoritarianism, written with Jeffrey Weldon, and Electoral Processes in Mexico, written with Alvaro Arreola Ayala and published in the Revista Mexicana de Sociología. In all he published 30 articles in books and magazines in Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom. He worked in news media such as Multivision To Start and the newspapers Reforma and El Universal.
Civil Service and political career
Molinar began his career as a polling representative in the presidential elections of 1976, won by José López Portillo unopposed. In 1987 he published an article in Nexos magazine about fraud in elections in Chihuahua.
He was Director of Privileges for Political Parties at the
Between December 2000 and May 2002 he served as Undersecretary of Political Development in the Interior Ministry, where the Secretary was Santiago Creel.
He was spokesman for the
He co-ordinated research and policy analysis during the presidential campaign of Felipe Calderón and, once the electoral process was completed, he joined the transition team of the president-elect.
Calderón appointed Molinar director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), relieving Fernando Flores y Perez. In April 2007 he intervened in a dispute over abortion. Although the Federal District Legislative Assembly decriminalized abortion in Mexico City in the first twelve weeks of gestation, Molinar declined to provide that service in the clinics of the institute he headed. This has raised criticism from some lawyers and constitutionalists.[who?] Molinar was also the director of IMSS on 5 June 2009 at the time of the 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire in which 44 toddlers and infants were killed.[2]
Death
Molinar died in Mexico City on May 20, 2015, from
References
- ^ Calderon strengthens his cabinet with loyalists Sergio Javier Jimenez Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, in El Universal.
- ^ "Este fue el gabinete de Felipe Calderón". www.capitalmexico.com.mx (in Spanish). Capital México. Feb 6, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ "Login Grupo Reforma".
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