1. Esteban Moctezuma Barragan was born on 21 October 1954 and is a Mexican diplomat and politician, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party and currently a member of the National Regeneration Movement.
11 Facts About Esteban Moctezuma
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Esteban Moctezuma is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon.
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On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated ambassador of Mexico to the United States and confirmed by the Senate on 16 January 2021.
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On 5 January 1995, as secretary of interior, Esteban Moctezuma began a series of secret meetings with Subcomandante Marcos, called "Steps Toward Peace", that took place in the village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, belonging to the municipality of Pantelho, Chiapas.
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Esteban Moctezuma became secretary of public education under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in 2018.
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Esteban Moctezuma testified that the distance learning program Aprende en casa I had achieved its goals, in that pupil exam results for high school were as good in 2020 as in previous years, despite three months of home education.
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Esteban Moctezuma announced that 140 campuses of Universidades para el Bienestar offer 36 different majors and serve 32,000 students.
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Esteban Moctezuma is the son of architect Pedro Moctezuma Diaz Infante and Maria Teresa Barragan Alvarez.
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Esteban Moctezuma received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's degree in economic policy from Cambridge University.
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Esteban Moctezuma joined TV Azteca in 2002 and currently serves as chief executive officer of of the.
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Esteban Moctezuma is a direct descendant of Moctezuma II, 9th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, 6th Emperor of the Mexica, 9th Emperor of the Aztec Empire.