Sergio García Ramírez Explained

Sergio García Ramírez
Order:President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Term Start:2004
Term End:2007
Predecessor:Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Successor:Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Office1:Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Term Start1:1997
Term End1:2009
Predecessor1:Héctor Fix Zamudio
Office2:Attorney General of Mexico
Term Start2:1 December 1982
Term End2:30 November 1988
Predecessor2:Óscar Flores Sánchez
President2:Miguel de la Madrid
Office3:Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare
Term Start3:28 December 1981
Term End3:30 November 1982
Predecessor3:Javier García Paniagua
Successor3:Arsenio Farell Cubillas
President3:José López Portillo
Birth Date:1 February 1938
Birth Place:Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Death Place:Mexico City
Party:Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Alma Mater:National Autonomous University of Mexico
UNAM (Juris Doctor)
Website:Official website

Sergio García Ramírez (1 February 1938 – 10 January 2024) was a Mexican jurist and politician who served as a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1997 to 2009.[1]

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, García Ramírez undertook his university studies at the school of law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 with an honorable mention, and he obtained his Ph.D. in 1971, receiving the first magna cum laude awarded for a UNAM Ph.D. in law.He was an official investigator in the Institute of Juridical Investigations and an official professor in the School of Law of the same university. He was a National Investigator, level III, in the National System of Investigators. From 1993 he was a member of the Governing Board of the UNAM.

García Ramírez was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1961. Although he was never elected to public office, he occupied different positions under the PRI regime and served in the cabinet of President José López Portillo as Secretary of Labor (1981 - 1982) and then in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid as Attorney General (1982–1988).[2] In 1988 he lost the PRI internal bid for the party presidential candidacy against Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

García Ramírez died in Mexico City on 10 January 2024, at the age of 85.[3]

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  1. News: Falleció Sergio García Ramírez, jurista mexicano que fue presidente de la CorteIDH . 11 January 2024 . . 10 January 2024.
  2. News: Shots Fired At Mexican Police Looking For Bodies. 4 November 1985. Toledo Blade. 2. 6 August 2011.
  3. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/muere-sergio-garcia-ramirez-jurista-e-investigador-emerito-de-la-unam/ Muere Sergio García Ramírez, jurista e investigador emérito de la UNAM