Claudia Ruiz Massieu

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ruiz Massieu and the second or maternal family name is Salinas.
Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
27 August 2015
President Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
Secretary of Tourism
In office
1 December 2012 – 27 August 2015
President Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by Gloria Guevara
Succeeded by Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
Personal details
Born (1972-07-10) 10 July 1972
Mexico City, Mexico
Political party Institutional Revolutionary Party
Spouse(s) Francisco Ricalde Alarcón
Alma mater Ibero-American University

Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas DBE (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She is the incumbent Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2015.[1]

As of 2014 she also has served as Deputy of the LIX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress as a plurinominal representative.[2]

Personal background

Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas[3] is daughter of the former governor of Guerrero José Francisco Ruiz Massieu[4] (assassinated in 1994).[5] And also niece of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari[6] (whose notorious brother, Raúl Salinas de Gortari, spent ten years in prison accused of masterminding the murder of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu).[7]

References

  1. ↑ Balderas, Oscar (4 September 2012). "Los 45 priistas que forman el equipo de transición de Peña". ADN Político. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.redpolitica.mx/yopolitico/perfil/claudia/ruiz-massieu-salinas
  4. ↑ http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/estilos/31195.html
  5. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/mexico/stories/990122.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2015/10/04/1049195
  7. ↑ http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/salinas-funds-finally-head-back-to-mexico/6740256
Political offices
Preceded by
Gloria Guevara		 Secretary of Tourism
2012–2015 		Succeeded by
Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
Preceded by
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña		 Secretary of Foreign Affairs
2015–present 		Incumbent


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