Claudia Ruiz Massieu

Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 August 2015
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
Secretary of Tourism
In office 1 December 2012 – 27 August 2015
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Gloria Guevara
Succeeded by	Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
Personal details
Born	10 July 1972 Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
Spouse(s)	Francisco Ricalde Alarcón
Alma mater	Ibero-American University

Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She is the incumbent Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2015.^[1]

As of 2014 she also has served as Deputy of the LIX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress as a plurinominal representative.^[2]

Personal background

Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas^[3] is daughter of the former governor of Guerrero José Francisco Ruiz Massieu^[4] (assassinated in 1994).^[5] And also niece of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari^[6] (whose notorious brother, Raúl Salinas de Gortari, spent ten years in prison accused of masterminding the murder of José Francisco Ruiz Massieu).^[7]

References

1. Balderas, Oscar (4 September 2012). "Los 45 priistas que forman el equipo de transición de Peña". ADN Político. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
3. http://www.redpolitica.mx/yopolitico/perfil/claudia/ruiz-massieu-salinas
4. http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/estilos/31195.html
5. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/mexico/stories/990122.htm
6. http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2015/10/04/1049195
7. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/salinas-funds-finally-head-back-to-mexico/6740256