People You Should Know: Felipe Calderon

Felipe Calderón

- President of Mexico, elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without possibility for re-election
- a devout Roman Catholic, Calderón opposesabortion, euthanasia, contraception and gay marriage.
- supports balanced fiscal policies, flat taxes, and lower taxes and free trade.
- has also stated that the challenge is not between the political left or right, but a choice between "the past and the future". In his interpretation, moving "towards the past" would mean nationalizations, expropriations, state control of the economy, and authoritarianism while "the future" would represent the contrary: privatizations, liberalization, market control of the economy, and political freedoms.