Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo (politician) | ||||||||||||
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Born | 27 December 1951 | |||||||||||
Nationality | Mexican | |||||||||||
Alma mater | Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Yale University | |||||||||||
Member of | 21st Century Council, Club de Madrid, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations/Global Board of Advisors, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Group of Thirty, WEF/Board of Trustees | |||||||||||
President of Mexico 1994-2000. Since leaving office, he has been in the pay of corporations to further globalist agendas. In 2020, he joined the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), an "independent" group examining how the WHO and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He was President of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Since leaving office, he has been in the pay of corporations to further globalist agendas.
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Presidency
During his presidency, he faced one of the worst economic crises in Mexico's history, which started only weeks after he took office.[1][2] He distanced himself from his predecessor Carlos Salinas de Gortari, blaming his administration for the crisis (although President Zedillo himself did not deviate from the neoliberal policies of his two predecessors),[1][3] and oversaw the arrest of his brother Raúl Salinas de Gortari.[4] His administration was also marked, among other things, by renewed clashes with the EZLN and the Popular Revolutionary Army;[5] the controversial implementation of Fobaproa to bail out the national banks;[6]; and the Aguas Blancas and Acteal massacres perpetrated by State forces.[7][8]
Although Zedillo's policies eventually led to a relative economic recovery, popular discontent with seven decades of PRI rule led to the party losing, for the first time, its legislative majority in the 1997 midterm elections,[9] and in the 2000 general election the right-wing opposition National Action Party's candidate Vicente Fox won the Presidency of the Republic, putting an end to 71 years of uninterrupted PRI rule.[10] Zedillo's admission of the PRI's defeat and his peaceful handing of power to his successor improved his image in the final months of his administration, and he left office with an approval rating of 60%.[11]
Post-presidency
Since the ending of his term as president in 2000, Zedillo has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations.
He now sits on lucrative board positions in large corporations; and in globalist think tanks funded by billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros, Nicolas Berggruen and others. Part of this is reward for services rendered as president, part is for being a respectable face outwards for these agendas.
In 2008, a conference on global climate change was convened at Yale, resulting in a published volume edited by Zedillo.[12]
Corporate boards
- Alcoa, Member of the Board of Directors
- Citigroup, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2010)[13]
- Coca-Cola, Member of the International Advisory Board
- Electronic Data Systems, Member of the Board of Directors
- Stonebridge International, Member of the Board of Advisors[14]
- Procter & Gamble, Member of the Board of Directors (2001-2019)[15]
- Union Pacific Corporation, Member of the Board of Directors (2001-2006)
Other organizations
- Kofi Annan Foundation, Member of the Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age (since 2018)[16]
- Berggruen Institute, Member of the Board of Directors[17]
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI), Co-Chair of the Regional Migration Study Group[18]
- Aurora Prize, Member of the Selection Committee (since 2015)[19]
- The Elders, Member (since 2013)[20]
- Natural Resource Charter, Chair of the Oversight Board (since 2011)
- American Philosophical Society, Member (since 2011)[21]
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Member of the Global Development Program Advisory Panel (since 2007)[22]
- Group of Thirty, Member (since 2005)
- Inter-American Dialogue, Member (since 2003)[23]
- Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), Honorary Member of the Board of Directors[24]
- Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management, Member of the Advisory Board
- Club of Madrid, Member
- Americas Quarterly, Member of the Editorial Board
In 2009, Zedillo headed an external review of the World Bank Group's governance.[25] Since 2019, he has been serving on the High-Level Council on Leadership & Management for Development of the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health).[26] In 2020, he joined the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), an "independent" group examining how the WHO and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.[27]
In 2016, Zedillo co-signed a letter calling for an end to the War on Drugs, along with people like Mary J. Blige, Jesse Jackson and George Soros.[28]
A Document by Ernesto Zedillo
Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 | open letter | 14 May 2020 | "COVID-19/Vaccine" | A number of deep state operatives, including 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world. |
Appointments by Ernesto Zedillo
Appointee | Job | Appointed | End |
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Ángel Gurría | Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico | 1 January 1998 | 30 November 2000 |
Ángel Gurría | Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico | 1 December 1994 | 31 December 1997 |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Brussels Forum/2010 | 26 March 2010 | 28 March 2010 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006 | 25 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | Switzerland | Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012 | 25 January 2012 | 29 January 2012 | Switzerland | 2113 guests in Davos |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
References
- ↑ a b https://www.economist.com/node/3524948
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150410090503/https://economics.rabobank.com/publications/2013/september/the-tequila-crisis-in-1994/
- ↑ http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/10/11/index.php?section=politica&article=020a1p
- ↑ Salinas' Brother Charged in Mexican Assassination New York Times 1 March 1995 [1]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131017111100/http://www.letraslibres.com/sites/default/files/pdfs_articulos/pdf_art_5673_5540.pdf
- ↑ Solís, L. (comp.) (1999). Fobaproa y las recientes reformas financieras. México: Instituto de Investigación Económica y Social "Lucas Alamán", A.C.
- ↑ https://archive.today/20120903223624/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2008/07/02/resuelve-scjn-atraer-caso-acteal
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061130050433/http://www.patriagrande.net/mexico/aguas.blancas/index.html
- ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p453 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p475 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ↑ https://elpais.com/diario/2000/12/01/internacional/975625205_850215.html
- ↑ Ernesto Zedillo, ed., Global Warming. Looking Beyond Kyoto. Brookings Institution Press 2008
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704625004575089271339238714?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090309235656/http://www.stonebridge-international.com/pages/page01b.html#zed
- ↑ Member of the Board of Directors: Ernesto Zedillo Archived 31 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Procter & Gamble.
- ↑ Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age Kofi Annan Foundation.
- ↑ Board of Directors Berggruen Institute.
- ↑ Regional Migration Study Group Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
- ↑ Selection Committee Aurora Prize.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180824114554/https://theelders.org/article/martti-ahtisaari-joins-elders
- ↑ https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Ernesto+Zedillo&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced
- ↑ Program Advisory Panels Announced by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, press release of 2007.
- ↑ http://www.thedialogue.org/experts/ernesto-zedillo/
- ↑ Board of Directors Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).
- ↑ http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22360012~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
- ↑ https://www.leadmanagedevelop.org/council
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-panel/pandemic-review-panel-named-includes-miliband-ex-mexican-president-idUSKBN25U1RB
- ↑ http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2016/04/over-1000-leaders-worldwide-call-end-disastrous-drug-war-ahead-un-special-session
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