... Poire, 40, has never held elected office, and spent more than a year ... as national security spokesman before he moved to the CISEN in September. ... A Harvard graduate who later worked as an academic, Poire was an adviser to Calderon early in his presidency. " read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
Nov 18, 2011
Mexico Politics: Calderon names intelligence chief to be interior minister
Reuters: "Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, picked the head of the national intelligence agency as the country's new interior minister on Thursday, beefing up the job's security profile as the government attempts to bring violent drug cartels to heel. Alejandro Poire, director of the Center for Research and National Security (CISEN), succeeds Francisco Blake, who was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday.
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