21 Facts About Felipe Calderón

1. Felipe Calderon became the PAN's secretary-general in 1993 when his political mentor, Carlos Castillo Peraza, assumed the party presidency.

2. In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon adopted the method and soon it became the heart of US  and Latin American strategy for its "war on drugs.

3. Felipe Calderon expressed his hopes that something be done to clear up the status of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US.

4. Felipe Calderon was expected to mediate with 'free market' Latin American countries.

5. Felipe Calderon launched Seguro Popular to make this policy a reality.

6. Felipe Calderon left the post in May 2004 in protest of Vicente Fox's criticism of his presidential ambitions while supporting those of Santiago Creel.

7. Felipe Calderon joined the presidential cabinet as Secretary of Energy, replacing Ernesto Martens.

8. Felipe Calderon was a local representative in the Legislative Assembly and, on two different occasions, in the federal Chamber of Deputies.

9. Felipe Calderon spent most of his life working within the party and spent most of his free time promoting the PAN.

10. Felipe Calderon is the youngest of five brothers and son of Carmen Hinojosa Calderon and the late Luis Calderon Vega.

11. Felipe Calderon was a member of the National Action Party for thirty years before quitting the party in November 2018.

12. Felipe Calderon made immigration reform one of his main priorities, and in 2008 he and the Mexican Congress passed a bill decriminalizing undocumented immigration into Mexico.

13. Felipe Calderon had been a proponent of the Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project which was now merged with a similar funding and infrastructure project, the Puebla-Panama Plan, started during the Fox administration.

14. Felipe Calderon was president of the PAN's youth movement in his early twenties.

15. In 2007, Felipe Calderon established ProMexico, a public trust fund that promotes Mexico's interests in international trade and investment.

16. Felipe Calderon sanctioned Operation Michoacan, the first large-scale deployment of federal troops against the drug cartels.

17. Felipe Calderon served as National President of the party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy in Vicente Fox's cabinet.

18. Prior to the presidency, Felipe Calderon received two master's degrees and went on to work within the PAN while it was still an important opposition party.

19. Throughout his office, Felipe Calderon has been awarded several honors from foreign nations.

20. Felipe Calderon created the largest number of universities in the history of Mexico.

21. The elder Felipe Calderon occupied state posts and served a term as federal deputy.