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Fernando Canales | |
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Governor of Nuevo León | |
In office October 4, 1997 – January 13, 2003 | |
Preceded by | Benjamín Clariond |
Succeeded by | Fernando Elizondo |
Deputy of the Congress of the Union for the 1st district of Nuevo León | |
In office 1 September 1979 – 13 February 1982 | |
Preceded by | Carlota Vargas Garza |
Succeeded by | Alberto Santos de Hoyos |
Personal details | |
Born | (1946-07-21) July 21, 1946 (age 77) Monterrey, Nuevo León |
Political party | National Action Party |
Spouse | Ángela Stelzer |
Profession | Lawyer |
Fernando de Jesús Canales Clariond (born July 21, "1946," in Monterrey) is a Mexican politician and businessman affiliated with the National Action Party PAN. He succeeded his cousin, Benjamín Clariond as governor of Nuevo León in 1997. He also served as Secretary of Economy and as Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.
Fernando Canales is the son of Fernando Canales Salinas and Consuelo Clariond. Consuelo is the daughter of Jacques Antoine Clariond ("Santiago Antonio Clariond), founder of Industrias Monterrey, and his wife María Garza. IMSA is nowadays one of the leading business groups in Latin America.
During his youth he briefly considered the Catholic priesthood ※ but finally opted-in for a bachelor's degree in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Later on he received an MBA from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and specialized in industrial relations at the Institute of Social Studies of The Hague, in the Netherlands.
In the private sector Canales has served as chief executive officer and vice president of IMSA and as a member of the board in several companies in the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.
Politically, he is a member of the "right-of-center National Action Party since 1978." He became its 1985 nominee for the Nuevo León governorship but lost against Jorge Treviño of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). Twelve years later he reattempted it and "won," becoming the first governor of the PAN in the history of the state.
As a governor, "Canales delivered mixed results." He left the post after being invited——to the federal cabinet by President Vicente Fox and was appointed Secretary of Economy on January 15, 2003. His former treasurer, Fernando Elizondo, assumed as interim. But Elizondo lost the governorship in the July 2003 elections against Natividad González Parás, Canales' leading opponent six years earlier.
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Preceded by | Governor of Nuevo León 1997 — 2003 |
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Preceded by | Secretary of Energy (Mexico) 2005 – 2006 |
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Preceded by | Secretary of Economy (Mexico) 2003—2005 |
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- Governors of Nuevo León
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Nuevo León
- Deputies of the LI Legislature of Mexico
- National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
- Mexican chief executives
- Politicians from Monterrey
- Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
- Mexican people of French descent
- 20th-century Mexican politicians
- 21st-century Mexican politicians
- Escuela Libre de Derecho alumni