Background

Enrique Cardenas was born on April 4, 1954, in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico.

Education

Enrique attended elementary, middle, and high school at the Instituto Patria in Mexico City. He received a bachelor's degree in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and obtained a master's degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University in the United States.

Career

Enrique Cardenas Sanchez has held different positions in the Ministry of Public Function, the Presidential Chronicle Unit of the Presidency of the Republic, and in Banco de México. He has worked in teaching and research in institutions such as the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, and the University of the Americas Puebla, where he entered in 1982 as Professor of Economic History and Contemporary Economy of Mexico, Latin America and the United States.

In 1985 he was appointed interim rector of Universidad de las Américas Puebla, ratified in January 1986. He held that post until 2001. During his rectory, an academic and institutional development program was started, as well as the renovation of the physical plant and laboratories, with the financial support of the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation. He promoted the creation of the science and humanities areas, with Universidad de las Américas Puebla being the first private university in the country to offer undergraduate studies in those areas. The degrees of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacology were opened in the area of ​​basic sciences, and the degrees of Philosophy, History, Art History, Plastic Arts, Music, Dance, and Theater, in the humanities. The first two doctoral programs were started: Economics and Computer Systems.

During his tenure, research was a priority. The number of SNI faculty members was over 50% of the full-time faculty. He founded the Residential College System, with the support of Yale University, and promoted international programs, the granting of dual degrees with universities in the United States, Canada, and France; Universidad de las Américas Puebla was a campus recognized as its own by Stanford University. The Library was remodeled and expanded. One of the priorities was expanding student financial aid programs, as well as representative and recreational sports. Academic and administrative processes were institutionalized to shore up the institutional structure.

From October 2001 to March 2004 he was visiting professor at the University of Oxford in England and later at Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico. From then to March 2005, he was Director-General of Income, Training, and Certification of the Federal Government Professional Career Service Unit. In April of that year, at the invitation of the Espinosa Rugarcía Foundation, the planning and establishment of the Espinosa Yglesias Study Center began, a new "thinking tank" in Mexico, of which it was its Executive Director until 2017.

He also teaches the Economic History of Mexico class at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, is a columnist for the newspaper El Universal and a member of the Governing Board of El Colegio de México.

Achievements

• Enrique Cardenas Sanchez distinguished himself as a professor of Economic History for 20 years at the University of the Americas-Puebla, where he was a rector. He also was a visiting professor at various universities. He has published articles and books in Mexico and abroad. As a rector of the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, he promoted expanding student financial aid programs, as well as representative and recreational sports.
  
  He received the Banamex Economics Award for his doctoral thesis.

Works

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  • Cuando se originó el atraso económico de México 2003
  • Manuel Espinosa Yglesias: Ensayo sobre su historia intelectual 2014

Politics

On August 31, 2017, Enrique Cardenas published a column in which he announced his intention to contend for the candidacy of the National Regeneration Movement party (Morena) for the governor of the state of Puebla, after a direct invitation from the leader Andres Manuel Lopez Worker. However, on October 24, 2017, Cardenas broke with the party by not being designated as a candidate in the internal process.

After losing Morena's candidacy, Cardenas announced in December 2017 his intention to seek the independent candidacy for the governorship through the Sumemos movement. When he was disqualified for having participated in the internal consultation of Morena, Cardenas Sanchez filed a complaint with the Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch to abolish that rule, which determined that all contenders must resign from partisan militancy for at least one year before the election. The court ruled in favor of Cardenas, allowing him to participate in the process.

Enrique Cardenas had to collect 132,500 signatures to get the independent candidacy within 30 days, according to the law. Cárdenas sought an extension before the Electoral Institute of the State of Puebla, but it was denied, both by the electoral institute and by the electoral court. At the end of the period for collecting support, Cardenas barely exceeded a thousand signatures received and criticized that the demands on applicants for an independent candidacy were excessive since, with the signatures collected by Sumemos (29 thousand), they would have managed to register a political party.

On February 27, 2018, the Electoral Tribunal granted Cardenas a 30-day extension to obtain the necessary signatures for his candidacy. Despite the additional term, the applicant closed with just over 24 thousand signatures, so he was denied registration. Given the situation, Cardenas again challenged, but the State Electoral Institute rejected his appeal, pointing out that the academic did not even obtain the support of 1% of the electoral roll, so the applicant went again to the TEPJF to request their inclusion on the ballot.

On May 16, 2018, the TEPJF endorsed the decision of the Electoral Court of the State of Puebla and rejected Cardenas' request for not obtaining the minimum number of signatures required for his registration as a candidate.

On March 19, 2019, he registered as a candidate of the coalition of parties made up of the PRD, PAN, and Movimiento Ciudadano for the governor of Puebla in the extraordinary election of 2019. During his campaign, Cardenas was denounced by an academic from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) for alleged embezzlement and tax fraud of 14.2 million pesos, committed during his tenure at the head of the Espinosa Yglesias Study Center. He was also appointed for maintaining the receipt of a scholarship for 40 thousand pesos a month from the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) during his candidacy.

Cardenas was also the candidate who spent the most money during the campaign (32.1 million pesos), beating his rivals Alberto Jimenez Merino (26.2 million) and Luis Miguel Barbosa (20.3 million); however, it did not exceed the expenditure ceiling established by the INE.

On June 3, Cardenas accepted having lost the election to Luis Miguel Barbosa, regretting that only 30 percent of the electoral roll went to the polls. According to the INE's Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), after calculating 100 percent of the minutes, Cardenas obtained 507,492 votes, equivalent to 33.23% of the preferences, against 682,245 votes of Barbosa (44.67%).

Membership

Since 1996 Cardenas is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) level III and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

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  Mexican Academy of Sciences , Mexico

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  National System of Researchers , Mexico

Connections

Enrique is married to Maria Gonzalez de Cossio Rosenzweig.

Wife:

Maria Gonzalez de Cossio Rosenzweig

References

• Enrique Cárdenas Sánchez - Twitter
• Enrique Cárdenas Sánchez - Facebook