Enrique González Pedrero, Senator from the State of Tabasco.
Background
González Pedrero, Enrique was born on April 7, 1930 in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. Important contemporary author. Knew Miguel de la Madrid at National Autonomous University.
Brother José served as Director General of Fisheries Development, Department of Fishing, 1977-1979. Close friendship with Fernando Solana instrumental in his appointment as president of the National Textbook Commission.
Education
Primary studies at the Daniel Delgadillo School, Mexico City. Secondary studies at the public Secondary School No. 22, Acapulco; preparatory studies at the National Preparatory School.
Law degree from the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1950-1956, degree, October 25, 1957. Studies at the University of Paris in economics, and political and social sciences, 1953-1954. Professor of the Sociology of Religion, National School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1956-1958.
Professor of the Sociology of Political Parties, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1959-1961. Professor of the Theory of the State, National School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1960-1970. Director of the School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1965-1970.
Career
A. April 7, 1930. b. Villahermosa, Tabasco. c. Primary studies at the Daniel Delgadillo School, Mexico City. Secondary studies at the public Secondary School No.
22, Acapulco; preparatory studies at the National Preparatory School. Law degree from the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1950-1956, degree, October 25, 1957. Studies at the University of Paris in economics, and political and social sciences, 1953-1954.
Professor of the Sociology of Religion, National School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1956-1958. Professor of the Sociology of Political Parties, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1959-1961. Professor of the Theory of the State, National School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1960-1970.
Director of the School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1965-1970. d. Senator from the State of Tabasco, 1970-1974, member of the Gran Comisión, president of the Second Committee on the Consular and Diplomatic Service, first secretary of the Second Foreign Relations Committee, and first secretary of the First Public Education Committee. Governor of Tabasco, since 1983.
Member of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1949. Founder of the National Liberation Movement (MLN) in Mexico. Lawyer for the MLN, 1962.
Adviser to the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1970. Member of the Commission of Political Training for the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1972. Secretary General of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1972-1974.
Participated in Luis Echeverria’s campaign for President. Director of Political Training of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1971-1972. Coordinator of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1982.
Adviser to the Directorship of Petróleos Mexicanos under Jesús Reyes Heroles. Investigator for the Commission of Planning Studies (University), Secretariat of Public Education, 1961. Lawyer for the Department of Mercantile Income, Secretariat of the Treasury.
Director General of the Mexican Corporation of Radio and Television, 1974-1976, President of the National Textbook Commission, 1979-1982. Secretary of the magazine El Trimestre Económico. Member of the Technical Department, El Trimestre Económico.
Founder of the magazine Política. Author of six books and translator of over a dozen books. Vice-President of the Siglo XXI publishing firm, 1966.
Critic for many years of Institutional Revolutionary Party and active political leftist. Interceded during the 1968 repression of students to get various professors and students released.