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. In the fall of 1979 he became President of The Banking Club, replacing the well-known banker and founder of the club Arturo Gutierrez Zamora Tejeda 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]