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51-423: The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez is located in the central part of the state, 360 meters above sea level, at 25' 36" N latitude and 100' 00" W longitude. The municipality has a territorial extension of 1,141 km (441 sq mi). It borders the following municipalities, all of which are in the state of Nuevo León: to the north, Juárez and Pesquería ; to the south, Allende , Montemorelos and General Terán ; to

102-520: A city located in the eastern part of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the state of Nuevo León , Mexico . It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. Ciudad Benito Juárez had a 2020 census population of 308,285 and is the sixth-largest city in Nuevo León. It shares borders with the municipalities of Pesquería to the north; to the south with Santiago ; to the east with Cadereyta Jiménez; and to

153-402: A grotto with a depth of 20 to 30 meters and a radius of 200 meters. Later Rodrigo Gomez and Mario Hidalgo de Leon discovered a second grotto, approximately 50 meters in ground, of sufficient size that one can walk around freely. Within the grottos there are formations of stalagmites and stalactites. Ju%C3%A1rez, Nuevo Le%C3%B3n Ciudad Benito Juárez , or simply Juárez , is the name of

204-573: A law director of the Secretary of the Interior , Carlos Abascal, during Fox's presidency and worked in the Calderón administration against abortion and same-sex civil unions. He called the latter as "anti-natural." He has publicly asked voters not to cast votes for "abortionist" parties and those who are in favor of homosexual relationships. 1.- Resigned to run for president Note: Only elections where

255-485: A mere 12% approval rating, the lowest since they started to survey for presidential approval. The PAN has been linked to a conservative stance in Mexican politics since its inception, but the party does not consider itself a fundamentally conservative party. The party ideology, at least in principle, is that of "National Action" which rejects a fundamental adherence to left- or right-wing politics or policies, instead requiring

306-409: A new district with the name "El Rosario", within then "Hacienda de Villa". This new district was part of the municipality of Cadereyta until 1868. On December 30, 1868, General Jerónimo Treviño, governor of the state of Nuevo León, decreed that the "Villa de Juárez" (Juarez's Village) will be founded and recognized in the same area "El Rosario" occupied. As all of the other present-day municipalities of

357-647: A significant number of UNEC's leadership came together to found the PAN. The PAN's first executive committee and committees on political action and doctrine also had former Catholic student activists, including Luis Calderón Vega , the father of Felipe Calderón , who became President of Mexico in 2006. The PAN's "Doctrine of National Action" was strongly influenced by Catholic social doctrine articulated in Rerum novarum (1891) and Quadragesimo anno (1931) and rejected Marxist models of class warfare . The PAN's newspaper, La Nación

408-581: Is a member of the Christian Democrat Organization of America . In general, PAN claims to support free enterprise and thus free trade agreements . Carlos Abascal , secretary of the interior in the latter part of the Fox administration, called emergency contraception a " weapon of mass destruction " in July 2005. It was during Fox's term, however, that the "morning-after" pill was legalized, even though

459-637: Is one of civility. The City Council of Juárez ( Cabildo de Juárez ) is an organ integrated by the mayor, the Regidores and the Síndicos . The mayor is the executor of the determinations of the City Council and the person directly in charge of the public municipal administration. The Regidores represent the community and their mission is to collectively define the city policies in all the subjects affecting it. The Síndicos are in charge of watching and legally defend

510-601: The 2000 presidential elections , the candidate of the Alianza por el Cambio ("Alliance for Change"), formed by the PAN and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), Vicente Fox Quesada won 42.5% of the popular vote and was elected president of Mexico . Fox was the first opposition candidate to defeat the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its precursors after 71 years. It

561-598: The 2006 presidential election . In 2000–2012, PAN was the strongest party in both houses of the Congress of the Union (the federal legislature) but lacked a majority in either house. In the 2006 legislative elections , the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senators . In the 2012 legislative elections , PAN won 38 seats in the Senate and 114 seats in

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612-569: The Church had condemned the use of these kind of pills, calling them "abortion pills". The PAN produced a television spot against state-financed abortion, one that features popular comedian Chespirito (who was also featured on a TV spot promoting Vicente Fox in the 2000 presidential elections) and a second one that accuses the PRI and PRD of wanting to kill the unborn. After the abortion bill, which made abortion available, anonymous, and free or government-paid,

663-733: The National Action Party or PAN , the Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD , the Labor Party or PT , the Green Party , Convergence , Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative and Nueva Alianza . National Action Party (Mexico) The National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional , PAN ) is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. It is one of

714-492: The Second Vatican Council , toward a greater affinity for the poor; however, more traditional Catholics were critical of that stance and nonreligious groups were also in opposition, since they wanted the party to be less explicitly Catholic and draw in more urban professionals and business groups, who would vote for a nonreligious opposition party. The conflict came to a head, and in 1977 the progressive Catholic wing left

765-604: The Second World War . Efraín González Luna, a former member of the Mexican Catholic Student Union (Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos) (UNEC), a long-time militant Catholic and practicing lawyer from Guadalajara, helped broker the party's informal alliance with the Catholic Church. However, the relationship between the PAN and the Catholic Church was not without tension. The party's founder Gómez Morín

816-423: The 2006 presidential election in 2006 , the PAN candidate Felipe Calderón was elected to succeed Vicente Fox. Calderón was the son of one of the founders of the PAN, and was himself a former party president. He was selected as the PAN's candidate, after beating his opponents Santiago Creel ( Secretary of the Interior during Fox's term) and Alberto Cárdenas (former governor of Jalisco ) in every voting round in

867-578: The Chamber of Deputies, but the party did not win the presidential election in 2012 or 2018 . The members of this party are colloquially called Panistas . Notoriously, the two presidents of the Republic elected as PAN candidates (Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón) have both left the party. Fox supported Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidates in 2012 and 2018, while Calderón founded his own party named " México Libre ". The National Action Party

918-653: The Federal District had, for the first time, members of the PAN. In 1989, Ernesto Ruffo Appel (Baja California) became the first opposition governor. Two years later, his future successor in the Baja California government, Héctor Terán Terán , became the first federal senator from the PAN. From 1992 to 2000, PAN candidates won the elections for governorships in Guanajuato , Chihuahua , Jalisco , Querétaro , Nuevo León , Aguascalientes , Yucatán and Morelos . In

969-532: The Federal District based on conscience. The PAN has opposed measures to establish civil unions in Mexico City and Coahuila . On 9 November 2006, the government of the Federal District approved the first law establishing civil unions in Mexico . The members of the PAN, and a member of New Alliance were the only legislators that voted against it. The same year, the local legislature of Coahuila approved

1020-675: The Human Rights Commission of the Federal District, for his lack of moral quality. The PAN, with the members of the Association of Catholic Lawyers, gathered signatures and turned them in to the Federal District Electoral Institute (IEDF) to void the abortion bill and force a referendum, which was also rejected by the IEDF. In May 2007, the PAN started a campaign to encourage rejections to perform abortion among doctors in

1071-511: The Monterrey metropolitan area have no more room available. The municipality has an extension of 277.8 km and located at an altitude of 403 meters above the sea level. The territory is mountainous, but with not important elevations, with around 70% of plain or semi-plain lands and 30% of rugged terrain. The lands are crossed by River La Silla, that joins River Santa Catarina in a place called "Las adjuntas". River La Silla joins River San Juan in

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1122-718: The PAN in Zacatecas, Chiapas and Oaxaca. In 2009, the PAN held 33 seats in the Senate and 142 seats in the Chamber of deputies. In 2012, the PAN lost the Presidential Election to Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI . They also won 38 seats in the Senate (a gain of 3 seats), and 114 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (a loss of 28 seats). The government of president of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) has faced multiple scandals, and allegations of corruption. Reforma who has run surveys of presidential approval since 1995, revealed EPN had received

1173-418: The PAN lost the elections for the state government of Mexico State and Nayarit to the PRI. The former was considered one of the most important elections in the country because of the number of voters involved, which is higher than the elections for head of government of the Federal District . (See: 2003 Mexican elections , 2004 Mexican elections and 2005 Mexican elections for results.) Significantly in

1224-469: The PAN lost the governorship and the majority in the state congress of Yucatán to the PRI as well as the municipal presidency of Aguascalientes , but kept both the governorship and the majority in the state congress of Baja California . The PRI also obtained more municipal presidents and local congresspeople in Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Chiapas and Oaxaca. The PRD obtained more posts than

1275-454: The PAN lost the governorship of Nuevo León to the PRI and, the following year, failed to win back the state of Chihuahua from the PRI. Coupled with a bitterly fought election in Colima that was cancelled and later re-run, these developments were interpreted by some political analysts to be a significant rejection of the PAN in advance of the 2006 presidential election . In contrast, 2004 did see

1326-501: The PAN win for the first time in Tlaxcala , in a state that would not normally be considered PAN territory, although its candidate was a member of the PRI until a few months before the elections. It also managed to hold on to Querétaro (by a mere 3% margin against the PRI) and Aguascalientes (although in 2007, it lost most of the municipalities and the local Congress to the PRI). However, in 2005

1377-427: The adoption of such policies as correspond to the problems faced by the nation at any given moment. Thus both right- and left-wing policies may be considered equally carefully in formulation of national policy. This theory of National Action politics, rejecting a fundamental adherence to right or left, is held within a strongly Christian context, and falls under the umbrella of Christian democracy . The party theory

1428-467: The city interests, as well as in charge of watching the City Treasury status and the municipal patrimony. The current mayor of Juárez is Rodolfo Ambriz Oviedo from the National Action Party (PAN), who was elected in the past municipal election on July 1, 2012, and will remain in office until 2015. The political parties with representation in the city are the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI ,

1479-400: The east, General Terán and Los Ramones ; to the west, Juárez and Santiago . It is the most easterly municipality of the Monterrey metropolitan area . The city of Cadereyta Jiménez, which is the seat of the municipality and its main population center had a 2005 census population of 56,552, the ninth-largest city in the state. However, within the municipality there are numerous other villages,

1530-399: The first female federal deputy. In 1967, Norma Villarreal de Zambrano ( San Pedro Garza García , Nuevo León ) became the first female municipal president. Until the 1980s, the PAN was a weak opposition party that was considered pro-Catholic and pro-business, but never garnered many votes. Its strength, however, was that it was pro-democracy and pro-rule of law, so that its political profile

1581-458: The first four federal deputies from the opposition in post-revolutionary Mexico. The following year, Manuel Torres Serranía from Quiroga , Michoacán became the party's first municipal president and Alfonso Hernández Sánchez (from Zamora , Michoacán) its first state deputy. In 1962, Rosario Alcalá (Aguascalientes) became the first female candidate for state governor and two years later Florentina Villalobos Chaparro ( Parral , Chihuahua ) became

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1632-459: The foundation of the PAN in September 1939. The Jesuit student organization, Unión Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos (UNEC), provided a well-organized network of adherents who successfully fought the imposition of a particular ideological view by the state. Gómez Morín was not himself a militant Catholic, but he was a devout believer who rejected liberalism and individualism. In 1939, Gómez Morín and

1683-537: The largest of which are: San Juan, Ejido Palmitos, La Calzada, El Alamito, Pueblo Nuevo, Cereso Cadereyta, Atongo de Abajo and Palmitos. The municipality had an official population of 73,746, also the ninth-largest in the state. In 1692, after a great flood, the town was relocated to the left side of the Santa Catarina river, 4.5 kilometers from its original location. In 1762, authorities and residents requested permission from Gubernator Carlos de Velasco to move back to

1734-576: The law of civil unions to which the PAN also opposed. The PAN also lodged an unconstitutionality plea before the Supreme Court of Justice of the State of Coahuila, alleging that the constitution has vowed to protect the institution of the family. Guillermo Bustamente Manilla, a member of the PAN and the president of the National Parents Union (UNPF) is the father of Guillermo Bustamante Artasánchez,

1785-422: The main political parties in the country, and since the 1980s has had success winning local, state, and national elections. In the historic 2000 Mexican general election , PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected president, the first time in 71 years that the Mexican presidency was not held by the traditional ruling party, the PRI . Six years later, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón succeeded Fox following victory in

1836-418: The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez. With a BSH climate, dry and hot. Juárez's annual average temperature is 22 °C, and its annual rain precipitation is 400 mm. Dominant winds comes from the north. Ciudad Benito Juárez is a municipality governed by a democratic elected Presidente Municipal (Municipal President or Mayor) for a period of 3 years with no right to reelection. The political environment

1887-420: The party primaries. On 2 July 2006, Felipe Calderón secured a plurality of the votes cast. Finishing less than one percent behind was Andrés Manuel López Obrador , who challenged the results of the election on possible grounds of electoral fraud. In addition to the presidency, the PAN won 206 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 in the Senate, securing it the largest single party blocs in both houses. In 2007,

1938-470: The party. The PAN had strength in Northern Mexico and its candidates had won elections earlier on, but these victories were small in comparison to those of the Institutional Revolutionary Party . In 1946, PAN members Miguel Ramírez Munguía ( Tacámbaro , Michoacán ), Juan Gutiérrez Lascurain ( Federal District ), Antonio L. Rodríguez ( Nuevo León ) and Aquiles Elorduy García ( Aguascalientes ) became

1989-524: The right side of the river, as they were going through a decade-long drought, and the terrain made it difficult for them to move water from the river to the inhabited area. This move to the new site occurred in February 1763. On March 28, 1825, the State Congress, at the request of Gubernator Antonio Rodriguez Leal, recategorized the community as a city and renamed it Cadereyta Jimenez. Its original name honored

2040-458: The sixteenth viceroy of New Spain, don Lope Diaz de Armendariz, marquis of Cadereyta, and General Mariano Jimenez, precursor of the Independence of Nuevo Reino de Leon. Since 1638, the jurisdiction of the village San Juan Bautista de Cadereyta; Gubernator Zavala mark it from the west part until Tampico port. This enormous territory lasted until 1742, when the colony of Nuevo Santander ( Tamaulipas )

2091-464: The state, Juárez was part of the system of villages used in the 19th century. These villages were founded in order to exploit the natural resources of the zone. Villa de Juárez was granted the title of city in May, 1988 with the name of "Ciudad Benito Juárez". The city is going under a heavy process of urbanization and construction of houses and residential complexes, as all of the inner municipalities part of

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2142-415: The west with Guadalupe . The city was named in honor of 19th century Mexican president Benito Juárez . Founded as "Hacienda de San José" or "Hacienda San José de los González" on June 15, 1604. The governor of the state of Nuevo León , Martín de Zavala, granted the lands for settlement to Bernabé González Hidalgo on April 1, 1642. The congress of the state decreed on March 1, 1850, the foundation of

2193-447: Was a party of "civic example", an independent loyal opposition that generally did not win elections at any level. However, in the 1980s it began a transformation to a political power, beginning at the local and state levels in the North of Mexico. A split in the PAN occurred in 1977, with the pro-Catholic faction and the more secular wing splitting. The PAN had updated its positions following

2244-524: Was a significant victory not only for the PAN, but Mexican democracy. In the senate elections of the same date, the Alliance won 46 out of 128 seats in the Senate. The Alliance broke off the following year and the PVEM has since participated together with the PRI in most elections. In the 2003 mid-term elections , the party won 30.74% of the popular vote and 153 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In 2003,

2295-452: Was approved at the local legislature, the PAN requested the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) to enact actions on the unconstitutionality of the measure, the CDHDF rejected the request as it found no basis of unconstitutionality. After unsuccessfully appealing to unconstitutionality, the PAN declared that it may request the remotion of Emilio Álvarez Icaza , the president of

2346-413: Was founded by another former UNEC member, Carlos Séptien García. The PAN originally brought together the Mexican socio-economic elite opposed to President Lázaro Cárdenas ' reforms. In particular, it opposed his plan for free secular education, the nationalization of oil and land reform. The party, which at the time included personalities sympathetic to fascism , campaigned for Mexico's neutrality during

2397-533: Was founded in 1939 by Manuel Gómez Morín , who had held a number of important government posts in the 1920s and 1930s. He saw the need for the creation of a permanent political party rather than an ephemeral organization to oppose the expansion of power by the post-revolutionary Mexican state. When Gómez Morín was rector of UNAM between 1933 and 1935, the government attempted to impose socialist education. In defending academic freedom, Gómez Morín forged connections with individuals and groups that later came together in

2448-614: Was founded. This colony was largely inhabited by people from Cadereyta. José Santiago Preciado of the Partido Acción Nacional is currently the municipal president (executive or mayor). Cadereyta Jiménez has one sister city.: The Church of San Juan Bautista (Saint John Baptist) was completed in 1788; it is in the Spanish Sevillan style. On April 5, 1998, the grottos “El Mezcal” were accidentally discovered by Pablo Carrizales Gomes and Rodrigo Gomez, who initially discovered

2499-446: Was in contrast to the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that was widely and increasingly seen as corrupt. The PAN came to be viewed as viable opposition party for a wider range of voters as it became more secular and as Mexicans increasingly moved to cities. As the PAN increasingly called for end of fraud in Mexican elections, it appealed to a wider range of people. In 1988, the newly created Assembly of Representatives of

2550-589: Was largely developed by early figures such as Gómez Morín and his associates. However, some observers consider the PAN claim to National Action politics to be weakened by the apparent persistent predominance of conservatism in PAN policy in practice. The PAN has similarities with Europe and Latin America's Christian democratic parties. The PAN currently occupies the right of Mexico's political spectrum, advocating free enterprise , pragmatism , small government , privatization and libertarian reforms as well. The PAN

2601-503: Was leery of clerical oversight of the party, although its members were mainly urban Catholic professionals and businessmen. For its part, the Church hierarchy did not want to identify itself with a particular political party, since the Constitution of 1917 forbade it. In the 1950s, the PAN, which had been seen to be Catholic in its makeup, became more ideologically secular. The PAN initially

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