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Meet the Man Who Will Run Mexico’s Finance Ministry

But Urzua isn’t a rookie either. The PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin managed the finances of Mexico City -- the country’s largest and wealthiest -- from 2000 to 2003 when Lopez Obrador was mayor. He reined in expenditures then, and the increase in the city’s level of indebtedness in real terms during his boss’s term was 3.3 percent, compared with the previous administration’s 19 percent, according to data from the Mexico City government.