Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa

Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa
Personal details
Born (1963-09-13) September 13, 1963
Brownsville, Texas, USA.
Political party Institutional Revolutionary Party
Education Bachelor Degree
Alma mater University of Monterrey
Website baltazar.org.mx

Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa (born September 13, 1963) is a Mexican politician Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Monterrey.

Political career

Member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1981, he was a member of the National Political Council of this political institution and a member it’s Permanent Politics Commission. Member of the PRI’s Political State Council in Tamaulipas and Municipal Political Counselor of the same party in Matamoros.[1]

He was also the Trust General Director for the League of Revolutionary Economists of the Republic of Mexico, Financial Secretary of the National Executive Committee, and the North Regional Coordination undersecretary of this organism.[2]

In Mexico City, after receiving his degree, in his first charge in public service, he was a counselor of the General Office of Documentation, Analysis, and Evaluation of the Ministry of Budget and Planning. There, he served as counselor and speaker for the Development Planning undersecretary’s Political Economy Information Program, where he also served as chief of department in the Office of Planning Coordination.

In 1985 he gave a course in macroeconomics and had in his charge the Seminar of Mexico’s Economic, Political, and Social Problems in the Universidad Anáhuac.

Later, he was chief of Department of Budgets and Income of the National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Information (INEGI)’s president’s office. He was also Budget Sub director of said institution and Private Secretary to the president of the INEGI.

In the House of Representatives (Camara de Diputados), in 1988, he served as Council Coordinator to the Presidency of the Programming, Budgeting, and Public Account Commission for the first period session of the LIV Legislature. Later, in the DICONSA-CONASUPO, he served as Cooperative Sub manager of Commercial Modernization

From 1994 to 1996, he was a Federal Delegate of the Office of Social Development in Coahuila, period in which he also served as Technical Secretary of the State Committee for Development Planning (COPLADEC). In 1997, he went on to take the charge of Sub Secretary of Expenses in the Coahuila State Government Office of Finance, where he remained until 1999. During these years, he was also a member of the Banobras Council.

He served as Secretary of Social Development for the Government of Tamaulipas from April to December 2000, and, later, as Secretary of Education, Culture, and Sport for the State of Tamaulipas until February 2003.[3]

Federal Representative

He was chosen as Federal Representative for the IV District of Tamaulipas for the LIX (2003-2004) and LXI (2009-2011) Legislatures, he became the recipient of a special award on behalf of the then Secretary of Public Education for the Federal Government, Dr. Reyes Tamez Guerra, during the VIII National Meeting of Educational Authorities carried out in April 2003, in San Luis Potosi.[4]

He formed part of the Public Account and Budget Commission, as First Secretary, as well as the Hacienda and Public Credit Commission and the Cuenca de Burgos Special. He participated actively in the integration of the Federation Spending Budget decrees, which included important measures to encourage a greater transparency and opportunity in public spending, greater austerity in the current government spending and to give greater impulse to the federalism. During his period, resources destined to the fishing and agriculture sector and the roadway infrastructure of the country were prominently increased.

He spoke before the highest National tribune on various occasions and during the LXI Legislature served as President of the Mexico-UK and Mexico-Cuba Friendship Groups of the House of Representatives and coordinated the jobs of the PRI representatives of Tamaulipas.[5]

In April 2004, he formulated and presented before Congress the initiative for a new Federal Budget Law, which served as base for an enactment of the current Budget and Hacendaria Responsibility Federal Law.[6]

Reform to the Third Constitutional Article and the Obligation of Medium-Superior Education

In April 2010, he presented an initiative for reform to the Constitutional Articule 3 of the Magna Carta, to make Medium-Superior Education obligatory in all the country, which was approved by both chambers of the Union Congress in a unanimous vote and enacted in February 2012.[7][8]

Municipal President/Mayor

He was Municipal President/Mayor of Matamoros, Tamaulipas for the 2005-2007 period. As such, he oriented his administration towards the strengthening of the urban infrastructure and sustainable development, improving the image of the city, the consolidation of the cultural institutions, giving a strong impulse to the educational tasks, and generating the appropriate conditions for the economic development.[9]

During his administration, he received from the President of the Republic, Lic. Vicente Fox Quesada, the Habitat Award for 2006 for the design and operation of the Regional Sanitary Landfill for Matamoros, which was evaluated by the Center of Economic Investigation and Teaching (CIDE).[10]

Likewise, in 2007, the public municipal debt was paid off, handing off the next administration debt-free. Before the Mexico-USA Chambers of Commerce, he was named, along with the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, as Distinguished Border Leader, award received from the President of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, Nancy Pelosi, in the city of Washington, D.C.[11]

Director in Chief of ASERCA

On December 10, 2012, he was named Director in Chief of the Service Agency for the Commercializing and Development of the Fishing and Agricultural Markets (ASERCA), uncentralized organ of the SAGARPA, by Lic. Enrique Martinez y Martinez under the instruction of the President of the Republic, Lic. Enrique Pena Nieto, finishing his term on February 28, 2015.[12]

PRI CEN Organization Secretary

On April 23, 2015, he was named Organization Secretary for the National Executive Committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.[13]

Accusations

On January 23 2012, a DEA protected witness singled out Baltazar Hinojosa as one in five Mexican mayors from different cities in northern Tamaulipas who would have accepted bribes from the Cartel del Golfo in order to let it operate with impunity when smuggling drugs across the border with Texas. When this accusations were made public, Hinojosa immediately denied any wrongdoing.[14][15]

Health

Baltazar Hinojosa is afflicted with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which has forced him on at least one occasion to be hospitalized in Texas.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Curricula de Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa
  2. ↑ Baltazar Hinojosa es candidato a Diputado Federal
  3. ↑ Sistema de Información Legislativa
  4. ↑ Ganó Baltazar Hinojosa; ya le toca a Tamaulipas
  5. ↑ ARLENE. Sus remanentes.
  6. ↑ Gaceta Parlamentaria dela Cámara de Diputados de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, número 1476-I, jueves 15 de abril de 2004
  7. ↑ Educación media superior, obligatoria por ley: Baltazar Hinojosa
  8. ↑ Diario Oficial de la Federación de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos del 9 de febrero de 2012
  9. ↑ Acuerda Cabildo fechas para Informe de BHO
  10. ↑ Premio Hábitat 2006
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ Nuevo Titular en ASERCA, Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa
  13. ↑ Baltazar Hinojosa asume cargo en CEN del PRI
  14. ↑
  15. ↑
  16. ↑

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