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Enrique Peña Nieto, (born July 20, 1966, Atlacomulco, Mex.), President of Mexico (2012– ). Peña Nieto earned a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, and an M.B.A. from Monterrey Technological Institute. He joined Mexico’s ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in 1984. He quickly advanced within the party and became active in México state politics, holding positions such as secretary of administration (2000–02), state congressman (2003–04), and state governor (2005–11). He was elected president in 2012 after campaigning on a platform that included pledges to improve the country’s economy and to combat widespread drug-related violent crime.

Institutional Revolutionary Party Summary

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexican political party that dominated the country’s political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local politics belonged to the party, because the nomination of

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México, estado (state), in the central part of the country of Mexico, on its Mesa Central. It is bounded by the states of Michoacán to the west, Querétaro and Hidalgo to the north, Tlaxcala and Puebla to the east and southeast, and Morelos and Guerrero to the south, and it also surrounds the

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