Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón

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Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón (April 24, 1913—February 12, 2006) was a Mexican businessman, lawyer, philosopher, journalist and professor. He founded several employers' organizations in Mexico as well as co-founder of the National Action Party. He was known as the "ideologist of the Mexican business community".

Juan Sánchez-Navarro was born in downtown Mexico City, descendant of the influential Sánchez-Navarro family. He studied law and philosophy in the National Autonomous University of Mexico eventually becoming a professor there for more than 50 years. At some point he was also teaching assistant to philosopher Antonio Caso.

In addition to his teaching duties, in 1938 Sánchez-Navarro became a manager at Cervecería Central which belonged to Cervecería Cuauhtémoc. In 1939 he co-founded the National Action Party (PAN) with Manuel Gómez Morín and Efraín González Luna. In 1942 he was offered a job at competitor Cervecería Modelo which he accepted. Eventually he would become vicepresident of Grupo Modelo, from 1960 on.

Sánchez-Navarro would be active in the many employers' organizations he helped establish in Mexico. These include CANACINTRA, CONCANACO, CONCAMIN, CCE, CEESP, CEMAI among others. He was a notable supporter of Vicente Fox' Presidential campaign in 2000.

He died in Mexico City at the age of 92, where he was buried in the French cemetery.

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Los orígenes de la idea de justicia. ("On the origins of the concept of Justice");
El concepto cristiano de la propiedad. ("The Christian idea of property");
La cuestión del salario justo. ("The question of the fair salary");
Principios básicos para el sano desarrollo económico. ("Basic principles for a healthy economic development");
El empresariado mexicano en el desarrollo económico. ("The Mexican business community and their role in economic development")[1]