Miguel Alemán Velasco

Who is Miguel Alemán Velasco?

Miguel Alemán Velasco is a Mexican politician, businessman and philanthropist. He is a former senator and governor of Veracruz.

Alemán Velasco is the son of former Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés and Beatriz Velasco Mendoza and holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is married to former Miss Universe and actress Christiane Magnani and has three daughters and a son: Claudia, Mónica, Carla and Miguel Alemán Magnani. When Alemán Velasco sold his stakes at Televisa, his son acquired them and is now the owner of Interjet, a low-fares airline.

On August 9, 2004 Alemán was honored by the Government of Panama with the Great Cross of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.

He sought his party's nomination for the 2006 presidential election during the first months of 2005.

Further Reading

There have been campaign biographies and some journalistic publications on Alemán but no scholarly study. The best work is George S. Wise, El México de Alemán. Useful material is contained in Oscar Lewis's chapter "Mexico since Cárdenas" in Richard N. Adams and others, Social Change in Latin America Today; in Howard F.