Carlos Enrique Castillo Peraza (Mérida, Yucatan, April 17, 1947 - Bonn, Germany, September 8, 2000). He was an intellectual, journalist and Mexican politician, Member of the National Action Party of which he was President from 1993 to 1996. Places named Mérida or Merida include: Mexico Mérida, Yucatán, capital city of the state of Yucatán Philippines Mérida, Leyte, a municipality in Leyte province Spain Mérida, Spain, capital city of the Extremadura Autonomous Community Venezuela Mérida, Mérida, capital city of the state... The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional), known by the acronym PAN, is a conservative and Christian Democratic party and one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Carlos Castillo Peraza was lawyer and Letterman in the University of Friburgo, Switzerland, was a collaborator and contributor of many newspapers of the country and began like journalist of the El Diario de Yucatán. From 1967 he was became a member of the PAN and he occupied an ample variety of positions in his state structure as as much national. During their management like National President of the PAN, their nearer collaborators were Jesus Galván Muñoz, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Caballero Peraza and Luis Correa Mena. A letterman, in U.S. sports, is a high school or college athlete who has met a specified level of participation on a varsity athletic team. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... For the Philippine statesman, see Felipe G. Calderón. ...

In 1980 and 1988, he was candidate to Governor of Yucatan and in 1984 to Municipal President of Mérida, he was elect Federal Deputy to the LIV Legislature and National President of the PAN and in 1997 he became a candidate of the Head of Government of the Federal District and being third in the elections, when finishing this process moved away officially of the policy and resigned to its active militancy in the PAN dedicating itself to academic activities until his death. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Head of Government ( Spanish: Jefe de Gobierno) wields executive power in the Mexican Federal District (the federal district, or D.F., is the seat of national executive, legislative, and judicial power, and is largely contiguous with the core of the sprawling Mexico City conurbation). ...

See also

• National Action Party

The National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional), known by the acronym PAN, is a conservative and Christian Democratic party and one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ...

External links

• (Spanish) Biography of Carlos Castillo Peraza in the official website of PAN