Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon is a Mexican politician who is serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
28 Facts About Marcelo Ebrard
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Marcelo Ebrard has previously served as president of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities.
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Marcelo Ebrard was the successful candidate of the Democratic Revolution Party-led electoral alliance to serve as Head of Government of the Federal District in the 2006 Federal District election, a position he held until 2012.
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Marcelo Ebrard served as secretary-general of the former Mexican Federal District Department, minister of public security, and minister of social development of the Mexican capital.
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In 2010, Ebrard was nominated as the "world's best mayor" by the Project World Mayor.
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Marcelo Ebrard received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de Mexico.
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Marcelo Ebrard specialized in public administration and planning at France's Ecole nationale d'administration.
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Marcelo Ebrard was married to Francesca Ramos Morgan and had two daughters and one son: Francesca, Anne Dominique, and Marcelo Ebrard Ramos.
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Marcelo Ebrard later divorced and married Mexican soap-opera actress Mariagna Pratts.
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On 7 October 2011, Marcelo Ebrard married for the third time to Rosalinda Bueso, the former Honduran ambassador to Mexico.
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Marcelo Ebrard became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1978.
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Marcelo Ebrard became a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution on 12 September 2004.
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On 8 July 2006, the French newspaper Le Monde ran an article indicating that Marcelo Ebrard was an emerging leader of the Mexican Left.
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Manuel Camacho Solis, for whom Marcelo Ebrard is a political protege, has a reputation for running articles in foreign newspapers to indicate his political intentions.
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Marcelo Ebrard continued and expanded programs that Manuel Lopez Obrador had initiated.
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Marcelo Ebrard expanded pensions for the elderly so that it was a right of every inhabitant of Mexico City who had reached 68 years of age, sending an initiative to the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District to elevate it to the status of law.
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Marcelo Ebrard created a special intelligence unit to fight against money laundering.
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Marcelo Ebrard made significant changes to the Historic Center, returning it to the citizens of Mexico City and its visitors by relocating the street vendors beginning in mid-2007.
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Marcelo Ebrard rehabilitated the Monument to the Revolution and the Alameda.
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Marcelo Ebrard has stated that one of his goals is reviving the Nahuatl language.
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Marcelo Ebrard's plan calls for city workers to learn the language as an initial effort at reviving the language.
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Marcelo Ebrard was the first head of government of the Federal District to complete his six-year term as governor, which began on 5 December 2006 and ended on 5 December 2012.
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Later, using his constitutional powers, Fox fired Marcelo Ebrard in what critics believe was a politically motivated move to derail his political future.
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Marcelo Ebrard was later reinstated as Secretary of Social Development by Lopez Obrador.
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On 30 March 2010, Marcelo Ebrard publicly announced his intention to contest his party's candidacy for the Presidency of Mexico in 2012.
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In September 2012, Marcelo Ebrard was elected to serve as president of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities which is part of the Urban Initiatives through the United Nations.
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Marcelo Ebrard renounced his position on 3 February 2014, in order to contend for the Presidency of the PRD.
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Marcelo Ebrard was part of Lopez Obrador's 2018 campaign team, responsible for interaction in Mexico's northwestern states.