1. Manuel de Jesus Clouthier del Rincon was a Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician.
25 Facts About Manuel Clouthier
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Manuel Clouthier's family owned 30,000 hectares of land in the Culiacan Valley.
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Manuel Clouthier is a descendant of French Canadian doctor Jean Auguste Clouthier, who settled in Sinaloa in 1851.
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Manuel Clouthier spent his early childhood in Culiacan, attending primary school at Colegio Cervantes.
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Manuel Clouthier's mother remarried in Guadalajara, after which Manuel and his brother Marco Antonio were enrolled in the Instituto de Ciencias.
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Manuel Clouthier then studied for a short time at the Black Fox Military Institute in San Diego.
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Manuel Clouthier returned to Mexico in 1951 to attend high school at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in Monterrey, going on to study a bachelor's in agricultural engineering at the same campus, graduating in 1957.
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Manuel Clouthier was often described as fiery, with a blunt and aggressive style, and took pride in talking straight, often crudely.
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Manuel Clouthier believed in democracy, in the social economy of the market, respecting the dignity of the individual, in solidarity and in subsidiarity.
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Manuel Clouthier died on October 1,1989, in a car accident on the Mexico City-Nogales highway in Culiacan, while on the way to a rally for a PAN candidate for mayor of Mazatlan.
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Children, Rebeca, Tatiana and Manuel Clouthier have since gone into politics, initially in his PAN party, and then Manuel Clouthier went on to becoming the first Independent congressman.
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Manuel Clouthier will contend independently for Governor of his home Sinaloa State.
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Manuel Clouthier then returned to Culiacan, where his father gave him seventy hectares of land to farm.
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Manuel Clouthier was successful with this, increasing his land holdings to 270 hectares and starting fourteen businesses in agroindustry.
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Manuel Clouthier organized opposition businessmen, connected with others in similar situations in other states.
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Manuel Clouthier was instrumental in bringing in new blood to PAN in the 1980s, recruiting owners of small and medium-sized businesses.
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Manuel Clouthier lost but PAN did not accept the results.
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Manuel Clouthier introduced PAN to civil disobedience tactics, emboldened by events in the Philippines against the Marcos regime, bringing in Philippine activists to teach peaceful civil disobedience.
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Manuel Clouthier was an effective campaigner and his rallies drew large and enthusiastic crowds.
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Manuel Clouthier had appeal to traditional Catholics in the county.
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Manuel Clouthier's candidacy was classified as be a new kind of right-wing population or new right for Mexico, distinguishing it from that of the Cristeros and Mexico anticommunists, with a broader message.
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Manuel Clouthier protested the media lockout by holding silent rallies, in which he appeared with his mouth taped shut.
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Manuel Clouthier signed a document pledging to not accept the PRI victory, but neither would he acknowledge that Cardenas probably won.
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Manuel Clouthier started a public hunger strike at the same monument, not eating for 177 hours from the 15th to 22 December 1988.
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Manuel Clouthier remained a prominent figure even after his loss, until his death.