Marcelo Ebrard

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Marcelo Ebrard
Ebrard in 2018
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Incumbent
Assumed office December 1, 2018
President	Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded by	Luis Videgaray Caso
Head of Government of the Federal District
In office December 5, 2006 – December 4, 2012
Preceded by	Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez
Succeeded by	Miguel Ángel Mancera
Secretary of Social Development of the Federal District
In office February 8, 2005 – September 7, 2005
Preceded by	Raquel Sosa Elízaga
Succeeded by	Martha Pérez Bajarano
Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District
In office February 15, 2002 – November 7 2004
Preceded by
Succeeded by	Leonel Godoy Rangel
Secretary General of the Democratic Center Party
In office June 30, 1999 – September 15, 2000
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of the Congress of the Union for the 4th Circumscription
In office September 1, 1997 – August 31 2000
Personal details
Born	Marcelo Luis Ebrard (1959-10-10) 10 October 1959 (age 61) Querétaro City, Querétaro, Mexico
Political party	National Regeneration Movement (2018–present) Democratic Revolution Party (2000–2018) Democratic Center Party (1999–2000) Institutional Revolutionary Party (1977–1995)
Spouse(s)	Francesca Ramos Morgan ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2005)​ Mariagna Pratts ​ ​ (m. 2006; div. 2011)​ Rosalinda Bueso ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	Anne Dominique Ebrard Francesca Ebrard Marcelo Ebrard, Jr. Ivanna Ebrard Julián Ebrard
Parents	Marcelo Ebrard, Sr. Marcela Casaubón
Education	College of Mexico (BA) École nationale d'administration
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Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (Spanish pronunciation: [maɾˈselo eˈβɾaɾð]; born October 10, 1959) is a Mexican politician who was affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) until 2015. On 1 December 2018 he was appointed Foreign Secretary by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He has previously served as president of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities. He was the successful candidate of the PRD-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. He also served as secretary-general of the former Mexican Federal District Department, minister of public security, and minister of social development of the Mexican capital. In 2010, Ebrard was nominated as the "world's best mayor" by the Project World Mayor.^[1] From 2009 to 2012, he was the chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change.^[2]

Personal life and education[]

A descendant of the French emigrant wave from Barcelonette in 1915, Ebrard is the son of architect Marcelo Ebrard Maure and Marcela Casaubón. He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México, and specialized in public administration and planning at the École nationale d'administration of France. He was married to Francesca Ramos Morgan and had two daughters and one son: Francesca, Anne Dominique, and Marcelo Ebrard Ramos.^{[citation needed]} He later divorced and married Mexican soap-opera actress . In April 2011, Marcelo Ebrard announced his divorce from Pratts through an official press release.^[3] In October 7, 2011, Ebrard married for the third time to Rosalinda Bueso, the former Honduran ambassador to Mexico.^[4]

Political career[]

Ebrard became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1978. After volunteering in the presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1982, serving as an advisor to the secretary-general in 1988, and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he left the PRI with Manuel Camacho Solís in 1995 to found the now-extinct Party of the Democratic Center (PCD). In 2000 he briefly campaigned for the 2000 Head of Government election for the PCD before stepping down in March 2000 and throwing his support behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the candidate of the multi-party .

Following the election, he joined López Obrador's cabinet as secretary of public security in 2000 and became a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution on September 12, 2004. On July 8, 2006, the French newspaper Le Monde ran an article indicating that Ebrard was an emerging leader of the Mexican Left. Manuel Camacho Solís, for whom Ebrard is a political protégé, has a reputation for running articles in foreign newspapers to indicate his political intentions.^{[citation needed]} Many have seen this as an attempt to dismiss López Obrador and now rely on Ebrard to win the presidency in the 2012 presidential elections.^[5] On December 7, 2010, he was awarded the World Mayor prize in recognition of his environmental and civil-rights initiatives within the Federal District.^[6]

Head of Government of the Federal District (2006–2012)[]

Marcelo Ebrard in daily conference held at Federal District City Hall Palace.

Ebrard ran as the PRD's candidate for Head of Government in the Federal District election held on 2 July 2006, which he won with 47% of the votes.

He continued and expanded programs that Manuel López Obrador has initiated. A new initiative was the Prepa Sí program, which granted scholarships to low-income students. This reduced the school-dropout rate in the city to 6% and raised the grade point average from 7.2 to 8.2.^{[citation needed]}

He 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.^{[citation needed]}

Among his actions having the greatest impact according to public opinion was the expropriation of properties and buildings that functioned as operational centers of crime. This included a property in the Tepito neighborhood, supposedly a drug-trafficking center; a large area of the Iztapalapa delegation, involved in the sale of stolen car parts, and two more drug sales properties in Santa María la Ribera. Although some in the business sector criticized these actions as an attack on private property — actions that received the support of the federal government — the initiative to seize ownership of these properties, as well as the introduction of video surveillance cameras, together with social development, helped reduce the crime index by 11% in Mexico City compared to 2006. He also created a special intelligence unit to fight against money laundering.^{[citation needed]}

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. His action was classified by the press as one of his government's successes, since informal traders had significantly increased their numbers in recent years. Some people criticized the decision of one of its dependencies to demolish historic buildings in the first square of the city to enable the relocation of street vendors, although it was supported by the National Institute of Anthropology and History. He also rehabilitated the Monument to the Revolution and the Alameda.^{[citation needed]}

In the area of health, he built hospitals in Tláhuac, Iztapalapa and Tlalpan and promoted the development of medical specialties that did not exist in Mexico City's public health system.^{[citation needed]}

During his mandate, he was recognized for his actions in the fight against climate change, the construction of a mobility infrastructure, through the transformation of public transport with the EcoBici (bike sharing) system; the expansion by 350% of the Metrobús system and the construction of Metro Line 12.

In 2009 he was named president of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change and in 2010 he received the World Mayor award from the City Mayors Foundation.

Ebrard has stated one of his goals is the revival of the Nahuatl language. His plan calls for city workers to learn the language as an initial effort at reviving the language.^[7]

Marcelo Ebrard was the first head of government of the Federal District to complete his six-year term as governor, starting on December 5, 2006, and ending on December 5, 2012.

Controversy[]

The city's chief of police, Ebrard, and Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004. After a thorough investigation, López Obrador gave Ebrard a vote of confidence, despite a request from President Fox that Obrador relieve him of his duties. Later, using his constitutional powers, Fox fired Ebrard in what critics believe was a politically motivated move to derail his political future.^[8][9] Ramón Huerta was also implicated in the incident, yet Fox gave Huerta his full support, and did not remove him from office. For this incident Ebrard is currently under investigation,^{[needs update]} as are the federal authorities who also failed to act. He was later reinstated as Secretary of Social Development by López Obrador.

2012 Presidential election[]

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a bilateral meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary- designate Marcelo Ebrard in Mexico City on October 19, 2018.

On March 30, 2010, Ebrard publicly announced his intention to contest for the candidacy of his party for the Presidency of Mexico in 2012. As a pre-campaign platform he founded his Progressive Vanguard movement. On 11 June 2011, the PRD movement of Jesús Ortega "Nueva Izquierda", also known as "Los Chuchos," named him the party's candidate for the Presidency of Mexico. In contrast, the current National Democratic Left, led by Dolores Padierna Luna, ruled in favor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. On 15 November 2011, it was announced that the method to select a candidate for the Presidency in 2012, would be a series of polls, which made Andrés Manuel López Obrador a winner. Ebrard refused to compete for the candidacy of 2012. As a formal Presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed Ebrard would be made Secretary of the Interior if he won the presidential elections, but Enrique Peña Nieto was elected president of Mexico.^[10]

President of Global Network of Safer Cities[]

In September 2012, Ebrard was elected to serve as president of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities^[11][12] which is part of the Urban Initiatives through the United Nations.^[13][14] He renounced his position on 3 February 2014, in order to contend for the Presidency of the PRD.^[15][16]

Secretary of Foreign Affairs[]

Ebrard was part of López Obrador's 2018 campaign team, responsible for interaction in Mexico's northwestern states.^[17] After López Obrador won the election on July 1, 2018, he was announced as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs a couple of days later, replacing Héctor Vasconcelos, who would instead become a Senator.^[18][19] During the resignation of former-Bolivian President Evo Morales and his government in November 2019, Ebrard viewed the situation as a coup and offered political asylum to Morales.^[20][21]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano (1992), Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico

External links[]

• (in Spanish) Marcelo Ebrard's Official Website
• CityMayors profile
• (in Spanish) Marcelo Ebrard at esmas.com
• (in French) Le Monde Article on Le Monde proclaiming Ebrard as the new leader of the Mexican Left
• Wedding and Divorce Article on El Universal on how Manuel Camacho will dismiss López Obrador in favor of Marcelo Ebrard.
• Article on El Universal on Ebrard's wedding registry
• (in Spanish) Recibe el PRD capitalino pruebas de la afiliación de Marcelo Ebrard ("The Federal District PRD chapter received Marcelo Ebrard's proof of membership"), article on La Jornada
• Marcelo Ebrard