Max Appedole

Max García Appedole (born February 10, 1957 in Tampico Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican entrepreneur and political activist. Appedole is considered an important advocate for the Mexican Government's peaceful solution with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

He studied at the New York Military Academy.He enrolled at the Instituto Cultural Tampico Jesuits College, studying private accounting. Later he studied to be an engineer in animal sciences at Monterrey Tech. He was an honor alumni speaker at Monterrey Tech's 50th anniversary; as well as a speaker at Monterrey Tech EXIT Congress alongside Mexican presidential candidate Margarita Zavala.

Following President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's economic and political reforms, including NAFTA, Mexico was becoming an important player in the world economy. In 1995, the Zapatistas began a rebellion against the government. The Salinas government started immediate peace talks. In the last months of the Salinas administration, a wave of politically-motivated assassinations took place in Mexico. Victims included Cardenal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, front runner presidential candidate Colosio whom Zedillo replaced as the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, brother-in-law of President Salinas and PRI Secretary General.

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