Ramón Martín Huerta was a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician affiliated to the National Action Party

National Action Party (Mexico)

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 (PAN). He served in Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...

's cabinet as Public Security Secretary

Secretary of Public Security (Mexico)

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Personal life

Ramón Martín Huerta was born in San Juan de los Lagos

San Juan de los Lagos

San Juan de los Lagos is a town and municipality located in the northeast corner of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in a region known as Los Altos...

, Jalisco

Jalisco

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. He studied business administration in the Universidad del Bajío. He was married to María Esther Montes Hernández with whom he had 3 children: Héctor Ramón, César Alejandro and Denisse.

Political career

During the 1980s he joined the PAN and became an active member. He was Director of Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....

's Industrials Association; there he met Vicente Fox and introduced him into politics.

From 1988 to 1991 he served in the lower house

Chamber of Deputies of Mexico

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 of the Mexican Congress

Congress of Mexico

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. He was assigned personal secretary of former Governor Carlos Medina Plascencia

Carlos Medina Plascencia

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. When Vicente Fox was elected Governor of Guanajuato

Governor of Guanajuato

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 he became a cabinet member and later, when Fox resigned in 1999 to run for the presidency, he was appointed substitute governor.

A trusted Fox ally and friend, Martín Huerta worked in the Secretary of the Interior from 2000 to 2004. In 2004 President

President of Mexico

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 Fox assigned Martín Huerta as Public Safety Secretary replacing former incumbent Alejandro Gertz Manero.

Helicopter crash

Ramón Martín Huerta, his deputy and seven others crashed

Accident

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 in cloud-shrouded mountains outside Mexico City

Mexico City

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 on Wednesday September 21, 2005 killing everyone on board. The craft, a Bell 412

Bell Helicopter Textron

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 helicopter

Helicopter

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, crashed into a wooded mountaintop about 11,200 feet (3700 m) high at a spot about 20 miles (30 km) outside Mexico City.

It has been speculated that the crash was not an accident and was caused by drug lords. However, authorities have always stated the crash was an accident.