Josefina Vazquez Mota Mexican businesswoman and politician Date of Birth: 20.01.1961 Country: Mexico

1. Josefina Vázquez Mota: Mexican Entrepreneur and Politician
2. Political Career
3. Biography
4. Entrepreneurial and Journalism Career

Josefina Vázquez Mota: Mexican Entrepreneur and Politician

Josefina Vázquez Mota is a Mexican entrepreneur and politician, best known for her presidential candidacy in the 2012 elections as the candidate of the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN). She has an educational background in economics and began her career in the family business. Vázquez Mota collaborates with numerous companies and enterprises and also writes books and works as a journalist.

Political Career

Vázquez Mota's political career started under the National Action Party in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Parliament - the Federal Congress of Mexico (Congreso de la Unión). She then continued her career in the administrations of Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. Vázquez Mota became the first female presidential candidate for PAN and the first female presidential candidate for a major political party in the history of Mexico.

Biography

Josefina Vázquez Mota was born on January 20, 1961, in Mexico City. Her parents, Arnulfo Vázquez and Josefina Mota, hail from Sierra Norte de Puebla, one of the highest mountainous regions of Mexico. She grew up in a large family, with seven siblings. During the first five years of her life, Vázquez Mota lived in a working-class neighborhood called Colonia 20 de Noviembre in Mexico City and attended the state school La Patria es Primero in the Azcapotzalco district. Her father wanted Josefina to attend a girls' school and even paid for a year of tuition. However, in her senior years, she convinced her parents to allow her to take entrance exams for a technical school affiliated with the National Polytechnic Institute.

Josefina excelled in her studies and showed a knack for mathematics. She later became a student at the private Ibero-American University, where she graduated with a degree in economics. Additionally, she completed management courses at IPADE, the business school of the Pan-American University, and the "Ideas e Instituciones" program at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico.

During her school years, Josefina Vázquez Mota met her husband, Sergio Ocampo Muñoz, a specialist in computer technology. They got married in 1984 after seven years of dating and have three children: María José, Celia María, and Montserrat.

Entrepreneurial and Journalism Career

Vázquez Mota started participating in economic conferences thanks to a friend of her father from the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce (Cámara de Comercio de la Ciudad de Mexico). Since then, she has established partnerships with various organizations, conferences, and events around the world, particularly in Latin America. She has collaborated with organizations such as the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, the Tourism Bureau, and the Employers' Confederation of Mexico.

Over the years, she has also worked as an economic journalist, writing for publications such as "Novedades de México," "El Financiero," and "El Economista." In the 1980s, Josefina and her family moved to Chihuahua to oversee several family businesses, including a children's clothing store.

Josefina Vázquez Mota has published two books: "¡Dios Mío! Házme viuda por favor" (God, Make Me a Widow, Please), a self-improvement book that sold over 400,000 copies, and "Nuestra oportunidad: Un México para todos" (Our Opportunity: A Mexico for Everyone), which is a dialogue with twenty international leaders. Additionally, she prepared a business show for TV Azteca.

Despite rumors suggesting that Vázquez Mota suffers from eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia due to her strict diet and commitment to physical exercise, she denies these claims.

Josefina Vázquez Mota remains an influential figure in Mexican politics and entrepreneurship, breaking barriers as a female candidate and contributing to the country's economic development.