Claudia Ruiz Massieu

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Claudia Ruiz Massieu
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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 (1972-07-10) 10 July 1972 (age 51)
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]


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Political offices
Preceded by Secretary of Tourism
2012–2015
Succeeded by
Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
Preceded by Secretary of Foreign Affairs
2015–present
Incumbent

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