Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (December 2, 1949(1949-12-02) – June 5, 2005(2005-06-05)) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq.
Born in Mexico City into an upper-class family, Adolfo Aguilar was the son of Adolfo Aguilar y Quevedo a criminal lawyer and Carmen Zínser, a philanthropist. He was also the g...
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Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (December 2, 1949(1949-12-02) – June 5, 2005(2005-06-05)) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq.
Born in Mexico City into an upper-class family, Adolfo Aguilar was the son of Adolfo Aguilar y Quevedo a criminal lawyer and Carmen Zínser, a philanthropist. He was also the grandson of Miguel Ángel de Quevedo El apóstol del árbol ("Apostle of trees"), considered the first environmentalist in Mexico and Ángela Quevedo de Aguilar a philanthropist.
Aguilar studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, international relations at El Colegio de México (1972-75) and completed a master's degree in international and public affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1977-78). During the early seventies he briefly subscribed to Marxist ideology, and he headed Luis Echeverría's Center for...
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