Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
” ARTFUL REVOLUTION ” – at Howard Community College
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano has accepted our invitation to attend the Inaugural Reception of the Exhibit “Artful Revolution” to be held at Howard Community College, Howard County, Maryland, in the fall of 2008.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , is a prominent Mexican politician. He is known in Mexico as the as the Moral Leader of the Mexican Political Left, and is a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and current President of Alternative Democracy and to Debate Foundation.
He has held relevant Political positions obtained through popular elections such as: Mexico city Mayor, first mayor elected to that position; Governor of the state of Michoacán, Senator to the Republic, he also has occupied high level administrative position in Mexican Administration. He has been Under Secretary for Forest among others. His very active political life keeps him in touch with people from low income and economically depressed regions of Mexico. In those regions his work is considered an important factor in the creation of political programs for the improvement of the regions and welfare of the people. Because of his close contact to these areas, and because of his political honesty and integrity, his opinions and his voice are sought by the Mexican Political Establishment for the creation and implementation of policies, as well as for political decisions at the highest levels regarding natural resources, industrializations, and for their general development.
Under his Administration as Chief Executive of Mexico City he finalized the requirements and gave the present building where Popular Graphic Workshop is located, as a gift to the Taller for the Great National and International work had done. His father Lázaro Cárdenas del Rio, Mexican President 1934-1940, supported all popular causes and the TGP.