Juan Camilo Mouriño

Infobox US Cabinet official


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name=Juan Camilo Mouriño
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title=Secretary of the Interior
term_start=January 16, 2008
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president=Felipe Calderón
predecessor=Francisco Ramírez Acuña
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birth_date=birth date and age|1971|08|01
birth_place=Madrid, Spain
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party=National Action Party
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alma_mater=University of Tampa
profession=Politician

Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo (b. August 1, 1971 in Madrid, Spain) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN) and the current Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

Personal life and education

Mouriño Terrazo was born in Madrid to Carlos Mouriño Atanes, a Spanish immigrant to Mexico who is the current president of the Spanish football team Celta de Vigo. Mouriño Terrazo studied economics at the University of Tampa and at the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.

Political career

Mouriño has served as local deputy in the State Congress of Campeche and as a federal deputy during the LVIII Legislature (2000-2003) of the Congress of the Union. In 2003 he unsuccessfully ran as municipal president (mayor) of Campeche.

His recent political career has been linked to Felipe Calderón; when Calderón served as Secretary of Energy Mouriño was designated under-secretary of Energy; during Calderon's presidential campaging he was the coordinator of the campaign first and then under-coordinator when Josefina Vázquez Mota became general-coordinator. In September 2006 he was designated head of Calderon's transition team and then on December 1, 2006 President Calderón appointed him as the Chief of the Presidency's Office.

On January 15, 2008 Mouriño was designated Secretary of the Interior.

candals

Recently Juan Camilo Mouriño has come under public scrutiny due to some contracts that appear to be signed by him as a representative of the companies owned by his father, while he was local deputy in Campeche, and later as an undersecretary of energy (Under then energy secretary Calderón), both government related positions [ [http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/485920.html Documenta AMLO contratos de Mouriño - El Universal - México ] ] .

Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently showed also two new contracts that show that Juan Camilo could have incurred in abuse of power [ [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/488803.html Revela AMLO dos nuevos contratos otorgados a Mouriño - El Universal - México ] ] , since it seems he is still shareholder of the companies benefitiated with these contracts [ [http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/488824.html Destapa Convergencia otros dos contratos de Mouriño - El Universal - México ] ] . The referred contracts can be found in the following links: [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/contratos_2002_mourino.pdf] [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo1_mourino.pdf] [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo2a_mourino.pdf] [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo2b_mourino.pdf] [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo3_mourino.pdf]

References

External links

*es icon [http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/485920.html] Documenta AMLO contratos de Mouriño
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/488803.html] Revela AMLO dos nuevos contratos otorgados a Mouriño
*es icon [http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/488824.html] Destapa Convergencia otros dos contratos de Mouriño
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/contratos_2002_mourino.pdf] Contratos Mouriño 2002
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo1_mourino.pdf] Contratos Mouriño 2002 anexo 1
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo2a_mourino.pdf] Contratos Mouriño 2002 anexo 2a
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo2b_mourino.pdf] Contratos Mouriño 2002 anexo 2b
*es icon [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/contratos_amlo/anexo3_mourino.pdf] Contratos Mouriño 2002 anexo 3