Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born 21 October 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and is currently a member of MORENA. He is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he pursued peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; in February the government pursued a strategy of military intervention, followed by a resumption of peace talks with the insurgents.[1] In 2018, he was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Secretary of Education. On 16 December 2020, Moctezuma was nominated Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, subject to Senate confirmation.[2]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Moctezuma and the second or maternal family name is Barragán.
Esteban Moctezuma
Secretary of Public Education
Assumed office
1 December 2018
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byOtto Granados Roldán
Secretary of Social Development
In office
13 May 1998 – 4 August 1999
PresidentErnesto Zedillo
Preceded byCarlos Rojas Gutiérrez
Succeeded byCarlos Jarque
Secretary of the Interior
In office
1 December 1994 – 28 June 1995
PresidentErnesto Zedillo
Preceded byJorge Carpizo McGregor
Succeeded byEmilio Chuayffet
Personal details
Born (1954-10-21) 21 October 1954
Mexico City, Mexico
NationalityMexican
Political partyNational Regeneration Movement
(2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		Institutional Revolutionary (1977–2002)
ResidenceMexico

1995 Zapatista Crisis
Main article: 1995 Zapatista Crisis

With President Carlos Salinas de Gortari economic and political reforms, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was getting propelled as an important player in world economy. When un solved ethnic situation was brewing in the Mexican county, that is when the Zapatistas uprising happen. The Mexican Government started immediate peace talks. In the early days of the new government administration, President Zedillo took a series of erratic decisions that completely broke with the previous administration agreements and with his own action plan previously defined.

On January 5 of 1995 the Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma started a secret meeting process with Marcos called "Steps Toward Peace" They took place in the village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, belonging to the municipality of Pantelho, Chiapas. Important specific agreements that both parties agreed to comply where reached. In which the Mexican army withdraw of certain points, such as San Andres Larrainzar and Marcos accepted that a group of citizens to be involved in a formal negotiation to start in a couple of weeks. Because of the fast progress of the negotiations in the steps toward peace, the possibility of an agreement look very close, because of that Marcos wrote “I am being threaten with unemployment“. »[3] »[4]

Secretary of Public Education

Esteban Moctezuma became Secretary of Public Education (SEP) under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in 2018. As Secretary, he supported the reversal of the controversial Educational Reform instituted by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2013, instituted a "neutral uniform" that allows girls to wear pants to school, and sponsored the publication of a free geography textbook. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, Moctezuma oversaw the institution of distance learning.[5]

In an October 2020 appearance before the Senate of the Republic, Moctezuma Barragán said that a SEP survey had increased confidence in public education from 5.8 on a scale of 0-10 in January 2019 to 7.7 in August 2020. He testified that the distance learning program Aprende en casa I had achieved its goals, in that pupil exam results for high school were as good in 2020 as in previous years, despite three months of home education. He pointed out that distance learning involved a combination of online classes and televised classes, in that 94% of Mexican households have a television. Broadcasts are made in Spanish and twnety-two indigenous languages, and the SEP distributed 700,000 notebooks and other school supplies. The SEP provided training for online classes for 1,200,000 teachers and parents and provided email accounts to 19,500,000 students. Televised classes of Aprende en casa II for the 2020-2021 school year reach 30.4 million users with another 1.2 million pupils who have classes via radio.[6]

Moctezuma also announced that 140 campuses of Universidades para el Bienestar (Universities for Well-Being) offer 36 different majors and serve 32,000 students.[6]

Personal life

Esteban Moctezuma is the son of architect Pedro Moctezuma Diaz Infante and María Teresa Barragán Álvarez. He is married to Cecilia Barbara Morfín. Esteban Moctezuma received a bachelor's degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's degree in economic policy from Cambridge University (United Kingdom).

Esteban Moctezuma joined TV Azteca in 2002 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of es:Fundación Azteca of the Grupo Salinas.[7] and is a columnist for El Universal[8] and El Economista.[9]

Sources
  1. Thomas Legler, "Ernesto Zedillo" in Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, p. 1642
  2. Rodriguez Garcia, Arturo (December 16, 2020). "AMLO nombra a Moctezuma Barragán como embajador de México en EU". proceso.com.mx (in Spanish). Proceso. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  3. Zedillo rompió acuerdo de paz con el EZLN»
  4. "Renuncia en Gobernación". Archived from the original on 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
  5. "¿Quién es Esteban Moctezuma? El nuevo embajador de México en EU". milenio.com (in Spanish). Milenio Digital. December 16, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  6. González, Lourdes (16 October 2020). "Esteban Moctezuma Barragán: comparecencia, retos y desafíos". Educación Futura (in Spanish). Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. "Fundación Azteca".
  8. "Esteban Moctezuma Barragán".
  9. "Opinión y Análisis Esteban Moctezuma Barragán".
  • Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.
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