Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
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Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (b. 2 April 1964 in Jiquilpan, Michoacán) is a Mexican politician. He is the current (2002–present) governor of Michoacán, representing the Party 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 Mexican political family: his grandfather, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, served as president in the 1930s, and his father, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, has been a presidential candidate on three occasions and was the first democratically elected Head of Government of the Federal District. Both father and grandfather also served as governors of the state.
Cárdenas Batel holds a degree in ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City.
External link
- [Government of Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel] (in Spanish).
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