- Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (born
April 2 1964 inJiquilpan ,Michoacán ) is aMexican politician. He served asgovernor of Michoacán from 2002 to 2008), representing theParty of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Prior to his election to that office in 2001, he had represented his home state in both the federal Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.Cárdenas Batel is a member of a distinguished political family: his grandfather,
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río , served as president in the 1930s, and his father,Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas , has been a presidential candidate on three occasions and was the first democratically elected Head of Government of the Federal District (Mexico City). Both father and grandfather also served as governors of Michoacán.Some PRD members criticized Cárdenas Batel for his lack of support for
Andrés Manuel López Obrador during the 2006 presidential campaign; some even asked him to leave the party. [http://noticias.vanguardia.com.mx/d_i_547909_t_Reclaman-a-C%C3%A1rdenas-Batel-por-resultado.htm] On the night of election, according to the "Wall Street Journal", Batel accepted a call from López Obrador's opponent and eventual winner,Felipe Calderón . [ [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115217765515499410.html?mod=todays_us_page_one Free Preview - WSJ.com ] ]Cárdenas Batel holds a degree in ethnohistory from the
National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) inMexico City . He was succeeded in the position as Michoacán governor byLeonel Godoy in February 2008.Notes
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*es icon [http://www.michoacan.gob.mx/gobierno/lcb.php Government of Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel]
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