Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto

The current head of the Mexican state was born on July 20, 1966 in a city called Atlacomulco, located 80 km from the capital of Mexico. Peña Nieto was the eldest child in the family. Therefore, he had firsthand knowledge of the fact that such responsibility was already from early childhood. The father of the future president worked as an engineer, and his mother as a teacher at the school. . The Nieto family was typical of the middle class .

Peña Nieto: childhood and adolescence

Unlike other candidates for the post of head of state, the future president of Mexico has never studied at universities in America. He spent only one year at the school in Alfred when he was 13 years old. Even at such a young age, Peña Nieto was very determined and straightforward - at least, so did his peers. For example, when asked who he would like to be in the future, the boy directly replied: "Governor of Mexico City."

President of Mexico since childhood, was fond of political doctrines. But do not think that Peña Nieto was growing up in seclusion among the books. In adolescence, he was very fond of playing football, and also could spend hours playing chess. A little later the boy learned to drive. Enrique Peña Nieto already from that age had all the prerequisites for a political career in the future.

In his youth, his father often took him with him to rallies of the governor and his friend Jorge Jimenez Cantu.

Then the case of Jorge Jimenez passed into the hands of Alfredo Gonzalez, who was his father's cousin. When Gonzalez's campaign took place, Peña Nieto had the opportunity to learn all the subtleties of political cuisine from within. The boy was engaged in distribution of leaflets in support of the future governor. . Until now, he remembers the time as a turning point in his destiny .

Independent life

In 1984, the future president of Mexico moved to Mexico City to study law at the University of Panama. There he receives a bachelor's degree, then a master's degree at the Monterey Institute.

Already in his student years Enrique Peña Nieto gained independence from his parents. He worked as a notary and earned decent money in order to provide himself fully. At the age of 20 he started working in a corporation for the production of auto parts.

By an amazing combination of circumstances, Enrique was always surrounded by successful people. For example, while studying at university, he shared a room in the hostel with the future president of Homex, one of the largest in Mexico, which deals with real estate. Also Enrique already at a young age managed to make friends with Luis Miranda, who later also entered the apparatus of the Mexican government.

In the final dissertation work, Enrique, Mexico was characterized from the position of the management system. . On two hundred pages of his work he compared the presidential system of government in the country with parliamentarism .

The beginning of political career

The official political career of Enrique began with the position of secretary of the State Committee on the Directive of the National Confederation. Then, over the next three years, Peña Nieto is part of the various municipalities of the states of Mexico.

From 1993 to 1998, he held the post of head of economic development in Mexico City. And from 1999 to 2000, Enrique serves as secretary of the government apparatus. In 2003, the future president of Mexico is elected deputy in his hometown Atlakomulko.

In 2001, Peña Nieto was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Interior. This gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with the leading politicians of that time and the largest businessmen of Mexico City. Further, he worked as an administrative secretary, then as head of social security. The future president of Mexico also worked as vice-president of the National Committee for the Development of the Family.

Prerequisites for presidential elections

In 2001, four candidates were nominated to the post of Governor of Mexico City, who were native to Atlacomulco. Among them was Peña Nieto. But he managed to take the post of governor only in 2005. In February of the same year, information was received that Enrique would run for the upcoming presidential elections.

As a candidate for governors, Peña Nieto was never a favorite. However, his administration has already committed about 140 projects by the beginning of 2006. The Mexican government did not know such indicators in its entire history.

While in the office of governor, Enrique was involved in the rehabilitation of roads, the construction of hospitals, he worked on the system of creating a proper water supply system. In one way or another, he managed to achieve almost all the plans that were outlined at the beginning of his service in this post. In 2011, on the official website of the city, it was announced that of all the projects that Peña Nieto had started, all but two were completed.

Successful Nieto projects

Among the great achievements of Enrique was the creation of the necessary routes of suburban trains. More than 300 thousand people a day and a hundred million a year were able to move from capital to state. And also Peña Nieto built about two hundred new health facilities.

During his time as governor, the number of diseases among the population has decreased substantially. For example, the death rate due to respiratory diseases decreased by 55%. . Of course, these impressive achievements could not but affect the upcoming presidential elections in Mexico .

The post of president

On December 1, 2012, Enrique took the oath of the Mexican President. The list of Mexican presidents Peña Nieto continued at number fifty-seven. However, not all residents of this number seemed happy. Many of them did not believe the main slogan of Peña Nieto, who said that his main goal was peace throughout the country.

On the day of his inauguration, a wave of protests broke out, organized by opposition parties. But many of the president's reforms were successful. . One of them was the abolition of monopolies in the energy sector .

But now the main problem that the government has to face is organized crime. The characteristic of Mexico on this parameter has always left much to be desired. Activities of drug mafias and organized groups in this country daily lead to human casualties.

Social tensions in Mexico are currently very high. . The latest protests in Mexico led to 400 arrests, 250 robbed trade outlets, and to 6 deaths .

The personal life of Peña Nieto

In 1993, the president married Monica Pretelini. But, unfortunately, she died in 2007 due to an attack of epilepsy. In 2008, Peña Nieto announced that he was in a romantic relationship with an actress named Angelica Rivera.

On November 27, 2010, their wedding took place in the city of Toluca. Also, the president has a son from Maritsa Hernandez. Peña Nieto publicly mentioned that the future of the son is not indifferent to him and he takes care of the child. However, it is known that in fact the president does not communicate with him.