ORGANIZATION

The National Action Party, known by its Spanish initials PAN, is a right-wing political party in Mexico. It has been largely defined by its opposition role to the historically dominant Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) over 7 decades.

PAN grew from a regional power to a national influence during the economic crisis of the 1970s/1980s, drawing many of the industrialist funders that formerly backed PRI as well as harvesting some of the national backlash against PRI's corruption and cronyism.

1989 saw the first PAN state governorship in Baja California. With 2000 came the first PAN president ever in the form of Vicente Fox.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña	Government	22-Apr-1952		Mexican Minister of the Interior
Felipe Calderón	Head of State	18-Aug-1962		President of Mexico
Santiago Creel	Politician	11-Dec-1954		President of the PAN Senate Delegation
Vicente Fox	Head of State	2-Jul-1942		President of Mexico, 2000-06
Manuel Gomez Morin	Politician	27-Feb-1897	19-Apr-1972	One of the Seven Sages of Mexico
Luis Calderón Vega	Politician	1911	Dec-1989	Los Siete Sabios de México

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