Rodolfo Elizondo Torres (born July 18, 1946 in

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated i ...

) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the . Elizondo Torres holds a

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administration Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal ** Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an administrative officer, administ ...

from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

(ITESM).

Political career

Elizondo has been a member of the PAN since the early 1980s. In 1983 he was elected

municipal president A ''presidente municipal'' (English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines under the Spanish and American colonization; it is comparable to a mayor of the town or city ...

(mayor) of

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. In 1986 and again in 1992 he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Durango. Elizondo has served in both houses of the

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; from 1988 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1997 he served in the lower house, then from 1997 to 2000 he served in the

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during the LVII Legislature.

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Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the ...

designated Elizondo first as presidential spokesperson and then, on July 29,

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as Secretary of Tourism. Mexican President elect

Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 ...

re-designated Elizondo as Secretary of Tourism for his Administration. He left this position in 2010. In 2009 he was responsible for launching the "Welcome Back" campaign to regain the trust of travelers affected by the

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scare. He re-activated cruise ship arrivals to Mexican ports only one month after the swine flu threat became public.http://www.dayofthedead.com/content/mexico's-minister-tourism-rodolfo-elizondo-welcomes-back-cruises-port-cozumel

References

1946 births Living people Politicians from Durango National Action Party (Mexico) politicians Municipal presidents in Durango Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Mexican Secretaries of Tourism Mexican people of Basque descent Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians People from Durango City {{Mexico-mayor-stub