Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña
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| Ambassador of Mexico in Spain and Andorra | |
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In office April 2012 – October 15, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jorge Zermeño Infante |
| Succeeded by | Francisca Méndez Escobar |
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In office 2009–2012 |
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| Secretary of the Interior | |
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In office December 1, 2006 – January 16, 2008 |
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| President | Felipe Calderón |
| Preceded by | Carlos María Abascal Carranza |
| Succeeded by | Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo |
| Governor of Jalisco | |
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In office March 1, 2001 – November 20, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez |
| Succeeded by | Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez |
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April 22, 1952 Jamay, Jalisco |
| Political party | National Action Party |
| Alma mater | University of Guadalajara |
| Profession | Politician |
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña (Jamay, Jalisco, April 22, 1952) is a Mexican politician who belongs to the National Action Party. He has been Municipal President of Guadalajara, Governor of Jalisco from 2001 to 2006 and from December 1, 2006 to January 2008 he served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.
Francisco Ramírez Acuña studied at University of Guadalajara, joined the PAN in 1969, and has been a youth leader, member of the state committee, candidate to federal office, and local representative to the Municipal President of Zapopan.
He was a Deputy of Congress for Jalisco twice, and upon joining the government of Jalisco, the governor Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez named him director of the SISTECOZOME, the corporation of collective PAN to mayor of Guadalajara, where he was victorious and held office from 1998 to 2000, when he left to be a candidate for Governor of Jalisco.
In the 2000 elections, he competed against the candidate of the PRI, Jorge Arana Arana, winning by a reduced margin, and was inaugurated on March 1, 2001.
During his time in office as a very unpopular governor of Jalisco, the summit of heads of state and of government of Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union took place in Guadalajara, in May 2004. During the summit, violent demonstrations of groups - altermundistas - occurred in Guadalajara. The destruction of urban property and business took place, including paint splattered in the oldest colonial temples of the city. In response to these attacks against the summit, the police, responding with riot teams, repressed these demonstrations. According to several versions of the event, there were violations of human rights, which have been accused by Amnesty International and by the National Commission of Human Rights of Mexico (which is linked - according to some, among them business interests - with antagonistic political groups and the secretary of government). The governor of Jalisco was accused of making decisions that resulted in unwarranted arrests, wounds, and cases of torture against the participants in the demonstrations: "They only took into account the statements in support of globalization, without listening to the motives of the public security forces", assured Ramírez Mints.
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