Associated Press | January 8, 2o11 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon shuffled his Cabinet on Friday, changing the two ministers in charge of energy, communications and transportation in order make his government “the infrastructure administration.”
Calderon said he wants the new Cabinet secretaries to provide better roadways and more accessible telecommunications services to Mexicans. In its first four years, Calderon’s administration has largely become known for its offensive against drug cartels.
Calderon named Harvard-educated economist Dionisio Perez Jacome to replace Juan Molinar as Secretary of Communications and Transportation. Molinar resigned to participate in activities of Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, which is preparing for the run-up to the 2012 presidential elections.
Calderon said he wants Perez Jacome, a former Treasury Department official, to create “an atmosphere of real competition” in the highly concentrated sector, so Mexicans can get Internet, telephone and other services on better terms
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