Alonso Lujambio

Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal was a Mexican academic and politician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.
Lujambio served as member of the General Council of the Federal [Electoral Institute], as advisor to the United Nations, and as an academic at the Ibero-American University, the National [Autonomous University of Mexico] and the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico, where he chaired the undergraduate program in Political Science.
On 11 November 2011, Lujambio was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, following a hospitalization for acute renal failure.
On 29 August 2012, Lujambio took protest as Senator, at which he was assisted in a wheelchair.
On 25 September 2012, Senator Alonso Lujambio died after complications from cancer.