Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza (born November 13, 1935) is a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician who served as Governor of the State of Mexico.

Pichardo served in the Cabinet of President

President of Mexico

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 Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.-Biography:...

 as general comptroller and in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

 as Secretary of Energy

Secretary of Energy (Mexico)

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. He has also served as Mexican Ambassador

Ambassador

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He is a member and former President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI).

He is father of Alfonso Pichardo

Alfonso Pichardo

Alfonso Pichardo was born on February 1, 1973 in Mexico City and is the current lead singer of Mexican electronica group Moenia. He replaced the original singer, Juan Carlos Lozano, in 1999 for the group's second album, Adición....

, lead singer of Mexican

Mexican people

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 electronica

Electronica

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 group Moenia

Moenia

Mœnia is a Mexican electronica/synth pop/ambient/alternative rock group.-History:Although originally consisting only of Juan Carlos Lozano as lead vocalist on 1997's debut album Mœnia and its companion remix album Mœnia Mixes, since the 1999 release of Adición+, Mœnia has consisted of vocalist...

. And he is a nephew of Juan Josafat Pichardo Cruz, who was the first Rector or the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México UAEM.