Anders John Aune, Norwegian politician, died he was 87.

Anders John Aune ^[1] was a Norwegian politician died he was 87..

(1 May 1923 – 13 November 2011)

Originally a member of the Labour Party, Aune was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1969, but was not re-elected in 1973. He was a member of Vadsø municipality council from 1951 to 1963, serving as deputy mayor in 1951–1952 and mayor in 1953–1955 and 1955–1959. His career in politics was scheduled to end with the post of County Governor of Finnmark, which he held from 1974 to 1989 (having formerly been the acting County Governor from 1963 to 1965).^[1]
However, in 1989 Aune stood for election for another party, a new party led by himself and called Future for Finnmark (Framtid for Finnmark). He was elected to the national parliament for this regional protest party, but again sat only one term.^[1]
Outside of politics, he had graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.jur. in 1948 and worked as a civil servant. In 1985 he was proclaimed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, and also received the Order of the White Rose.^[1]
During the German occupation of Norway he took part in the Norwegian resistance. He was arrested in November 1943, sent from Stavern to Stettin in December 1943, then sent to Sennheim the same month and to Buchenwald one year later, where he remained until the war's end.^[2]


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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Diaspora social network site, died from apparent suicide he was 22.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a Russian-American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it died from apparent suicide he was 22..

(12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011)

Early life, education, and Diaspora

Zhitomirskiy was born on 12 October 1989, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Alexei and Inna Zhitomirskiy. Both his father and paternal grandfather are mathematicians. In 2000, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling outside Philadelphia, where he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2007. Zhitomirskiy first attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University.
At NYU, he studied computer science at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he met the three friends with whom he founded DIASPORA*, a social networking service,^[2] in 2010.^[3][4] The project was conceived after the founders had attended a lecture by Columbia Law School professor and free software activist Eben Moglen in February 2010 about the threat to privacy posed by commercial Internet services. According to Moglen, Zhitomirskiy was "immensely talented" and "the most idealistic of the group... He had a choice between graduate school and this project, and he chose to do the project because he wanted to do something with his time that would make freedom".^[1]

Death

On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide.^[5][6] An autopsy report from the Medical Examiner's office formally ruled the death a suicide in April 2012. He died from an intentional inhalation of helium gas. While press reports questioned whether the pressure of working on Diaspora had led to his suicide, Diaspora co-founder Maxwell Salzberg disagreed. Salzberg stated, "Yes, I agree that being a startup founder is stressful. But it wasn’t the stress of work that killed Ilya. He had his own issues. He was sick." Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."^[7][8]
The Village Voice said that Zhitomirskiy was "often described as the most idealistic and privacy-conscious member of the group" and declared his death "a devastating setback" for Diaspora.^[9]


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Evelyn Lauder, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, died from complications from ovarian cancer she was 75.

Evelyn Lauder (née Hausner; )^[1] was an American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer  died from complications from ovarian cancer she was 75..^[2]

^{August 12, 1936 – November 12, 2011}

Early life

She was born Evelyn Hausner in Vienna, Austria in 1936 to a Jewish family.^[3] Lauder’s family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, using their household silver to get visas to Belgium. They then moved on to England where her mother was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and Evelyn was placed in a nursery. The family arrived in New York City in 1940.^[4][5] Lauder would later recall that she was asleep when the ship bringing them to the United States arrived in New York Harbor and her mother woke her up to see the Statue of Liberty.^[6] During the war years her father worked as a diamond cutter; then the family opened the first of what became a chain of five dress shops in Manhattan.^[7]
She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954. She then attended Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, where she studied Psychology and Anthropology and also where she met her future husband, Leonard Lauder, then a trainee naval officer, on a blind date.^[7] She graduated from Hunter College in 1958. ^[8] The couple were married on July 5, 1959.^[8] After the marriage, she worked for several years as a public school teacher in Harlem before leaving to work with her husband at the company founded in 1946 by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder, which at the time sold six products: a red lipstick, creams, lotions, and Youth Dew fragrance in a bath oil.^[9][7]

Career

Lauder was the Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder Companies and a member of the board of overseers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.^[10] A 1995 profile in The New York Times called her "an immaculately turned-out, awesomely organized woman" who had started to fill the public role that had been filled by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder.^[9]
Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder, created the Clinique brand name and developed its product line.^[11] She worked as the training director for Clinique and was the first person to wear the trademark white lab coat, now worn by Clinique salespeople at cosmetic departments worldwide.^[11]

Breast cancer activist

Lauder personally raised much of the $13.6 million that went to create the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which opened in October 1992 and focuses on the treatment and diagnosis of breast cancer. She helped raise an additional $5 million to create an endowment to be used to fund clinical research there.^[9]
Self magazine's first annual issue for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month came after an April 1991 lunch at the 21 Club, at which Lauder discussed ideas for articles about breast cancer with her friend Alexandra Penney, who was then serving as editor of Self.^[12]
Together with Penney, Lauder established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and formalized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness as part of Self magazine's second annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue in 1992. Penney's inspiration to improve on the success of the magazine's first annual issue was to create a ribbon that would be placed in Estee Lauder's New York City stores. Lauder made the commitment to have the ribbons placed on the company's cosmetics counters across the United States.^[10][13]
By 1993, Lauder had overseen the creation of a new shade called Pink Ribbon that was part of her personal and corporate effort to raise breast cancer awareness. Her husband paid for the cost of registering The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in all 50 states. By the start of 1995, some $900,000 had been raised for the foundation, including $120,000 from the sale of Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher and $190,000 from the sale of the Clinique Berry Kiss pink lipstick.^[9]
By October 2008, the Estée Lauder Companies estimated that the firm's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign had raised $335 million towards research and distributed 80 million pink ribbons.^[14]

Personal life

She was married to Leonard Lauder, former Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies, from 1959 until her death. They had two sons:

• William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies; and^[15]
• Gary M. Lauder, Managing Director of Lauder Partners LLC.^[15] He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University. In 1994, Gary married Laura Heller, daughter of Marlyn G. McClaskey and William A. Heller of California. Rabbi Peter Rubenstein performed the ceremony at the Central Synagogue.^[16] Laura serves as General Partner of Lauder Partners.^[15] They have two children: Josh and Ellie.^[17]

Death

Evelyn Lauder died at home in Manhattan from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer.^[18] She was a longtime resident of Palm Beach, Florida.^[11] A private funeral service was held at the Central Synagogue in New York City.


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Julius C. Michaelson, American politician, Rhode Island Attorney General (1975–1979) and State Senator (1962–1974), died he was 89.

Julius Cooley Michaelson served as Rhode Island Attorney General from 1975 to 1979 and was the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in 1982 against liberal Republican John Chafee  died he was 89..^[1]

 ^{(January 25, 1922 – November 12, 2011)}

Michaelson was born to Carl and Celia (née Cooley) Michaelson. He entered the U.S. Army in 1943 as a Private and was released in 1946 as a First Lieutenant. He graduated from Boston University in 1947, having earned his law degree. He received a Masters Degree from Brown University in 1967. His public service career began in 1957 as public counsel in public utility rate cases and as a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention. In 1962, Michaelson was elected to the State Senate, and served there until 1974. He was Deputy Majority Leader during the 1969 session.
In 1974, he won election as State Attorney General, and left office after two terms. He challenged incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Chafee in 1982, garnering 49% to Chafee's 51%.
He died on November 12, 2011.^[2] At the order of Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, son of Michaelson's former political opponent John Chafee, state flags were flown at half-staff in his memory.^[3]


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Zbigniew Jaworowski, Polish physicist, died he was 84.

Zbigniew Jaworowski was a Polish physician, and alpinist died he was 84..

(October 17, 1927 – November 12, 2011^[1])

Life

Zbigniew Jaworowski was chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw and former chair of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (1981–82) [2]. He was a principal investigator of three research projects of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and of four research projects of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He has held posts with the Centre d'Etude Nucleaires near Paris; the Biophysical Group of the Institute of Physics, University of Oslo; the Norwegian Polar Research Institute and the National Institute for Polar Research in Tokyo.^{[2][unreliable source?]}

Climate change

Jaworowski's works on ice cores were published in Jaworowski (1994, 1992) and in reports Jaworowski (1990, 1992). Jaworowski has suggested that the long-term CO₂ record is an artifact caused by the structural changes of the ice with depth and by postcoring processes.
However, Jaworowski's views are rejected by the scientific community. Increases in CO₂ and CH₄ concentrations in the Vostok core are similar for the last two glacial-interglacial transitions, even though only the most recent transition is located in the brittle zone. Such evidence argues that the atmospheric trace-gas signal is not strongly affected by the presence of the brittle zone. ^[3] Similarly Hans Oeschger ^[4] states that "...Some of (Jaworowski's) statements are drastically wrong from the physical point of view".

Opinions

Stephen Schneider said of him that "Jaworowski is perhaps even more contrarian than most, claiming that he can prove the climate is going to get colder through his work excavating glaciers on six different continents, which he says indicates what we should really be worrying about is 'The approaching new Ice Age...'."[3] Jaworowski wrote The current sunspot cycle is weaker than the preceding cycles, and the next two cycles will be even weaker. Bashkirtsev and Mishnich (2003)^[5] expect that the minimum of the secular cycle of solar activity will occur between 2021 and 2026, which will result in the minimum global temperature of the surface air. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started..
When approached to see if he would bet on future cooling, Jaworowski denied making any prediction, stating "I do not make my own detailed projections. In my paper I referred the reader to B&M paper, and that is all."[4]
Jaworowski published several papers^[6][7][8][9] in 21st Century Science and Technology, a non-refereed magazine published by Lyndon LaRouche.^[10]
Jaworowski has also written that the movement to remove lead from gasoline was based on a "stupid and fraudulent myth," and that lead levels in the human bloodstream are not significantly affected by the use of leaded gasoline. [5]

Primary published articles

• Jaworowski, Z., 1999, Radiation Risk and Ethics, Physics Today, 52(9), September 1999, pp. 24–29. link
• Jaworowski, Z., Hoff, P., Hagen, J.O., et al., 1997, A highly radioactive Chernobyl deposit in a Scandinavian glacier, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 35 (1), 91-108.
• Jaworowski, Z., 1994, Ancient atmosphere - validity of ice records, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1(3): p. 161-171.
• Jaworowski, Z., T.V. Segalstad, and N. Ono, 1992, Do glaciers tell a true atmospheric CO₂ story?, The Science of the Total Environment, 114, p. 227-284.
• Jaworowski, Z., M Bysiek, L Kownacka, 1981, Flow of metals into the global atmosphere, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 45, Issue 11, pp. 2185–2199. abstract
• Jaworowski, Z., 1968, Stable lead in fossil ice and bones, Nature, 217, 152-153.

Other publications

• Jaworowski, Z., 2007, CO₂: The greatest scientific scandal of our time, EIR Science, pdf
• Jaworowski, Z., Winter 2003-2004, Solar cycles, not CO₂, determine climate, 21st Century Science and Technology, pdf
• Jaworowski, Z., 2002, The Future of UNSCEAR, Science, 297 (19), p. 335 (letter)
• Jaworowski, Z., 1999, Radiation Risk and Ethics, Physics Today, 52(9). article on-line
• Jaworowski, Z. 1999, The Global Warming Foly, 21st Century Science and Technology, 7 (1), 31-41
• Jaworowski, Z., 1997, Another global warming fraud exposed. Ice core data show no carbon dioxide increase, 21st Century Science and Technology, pdf
• Jaworowski, Z., 1996, Reliability of Ice Core Records for Climatic Projections, In The Global Warming Debate (London: European Science and Environment Forum), p. 95.
• Jaworowski, Z., 1994, The Posthumous Papers of Leaded Gasoline., 21st century Science and Technology, 7, No. 1, pp. 34–41
• Jaworowski, Z., Segalstad, T.V. and Hisdal, V., 1992a, Atmospheric CO₂ and global warming: A critical review., Second revised edition, Meddelelser 119, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo, p. 76.
• Jaworowski, Z., Segalstad, T.V. and Hisdal, V., 1990. Atmospheric CO₂ and global warming: a critical review., Rapportserie 59, p. 76, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo

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Alun Evans, Welsh football administrator, General Secretary of the Football Association of Wales (1982–1995), died after a long illness he was 69.

Alun E. Evans was general secretary of the Football Association of Wales between 1982 and 1995 and club Secretary of Welsh League side, UWIC  died after a long illness he was 69..^[1]

^{(11 June 1942 – 12 November 2011)}  

Profile

Evans obtained two Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Geography from the University of London followed by his teaching qualification at Pembroke College, Oxford. He taught Economics and Geography in independent schools in London and Lancashire for seven years before entering sports administration as Secretary of the Universities Athletic Union, where he organised the National Universities Championships in 27 sports.^{[citation needed]}
He was then appointed Secretary and Chief Executive of the Football Association of Wales from 1982 to 1995 (first elected to the FA of Wales Council in 1988), during which time he founded the League of Wales (now the Welsh Premier) in 1992 after countless efforts on national and international stages. Evans retained his interest in student sport, serving as an officer on its national organisations and was co-founder of the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) in 1994. After several years of professional experience, he returned to academic study, taking a Master's degree (with distinction) in Sports History and Culture (M.A. Thesis, De Montfort University, 1996: "Football on the Edge: The Relationship between Welsh Football Policy-Making and the British International Championship").

Affiliations

Evans was part of the Academic School of Sports at the Buckinghamshire New University, his professional interests being Sport and national Identity; Bidding and hosting international events; and The Governance of Sport. He also serves as BUSA's Disciplinary Panel Chair. He was also Technical Delegate for Football for the European Universities Sports Association.


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Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican politician, Secretary of the Interior (since 2010),died from a helicopter crash he was 45.

José Francisco Blake Mora^[1] was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón from 2010 to 2011 died from a helicopter crash he was 45..^[2] He was Mexico's top cabinet secretary and key figure in the battle against the drug cartels and corruption in the country.^[3] Blake Mora was also an important official in the dialogues of Felipe Calderón's drug policy, where he constantly traveled to meet with governors and victims of the drug war.^[4]

^{(22 May 1966 – 11 November 2011)}

Career

Blake Mora was born in a humble, working-class family in Tijuana, Baja California.^[5] He obtained a degree in law from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) and a diploma in strategic planning and public policy from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). He was elected to the office of Alderman of the City of Tijuana from 1995 to 1998, and later served as a federal deputy for the Fifth Federal Electoral District of Baja California in the LVIII Legislature from 2000 to 2003. He then served as a member of the Congress of Baja California from 2004 to 2007.^[6] According to Fox News, Blake Mora gained popularity as a public official because he had promoted the cooperation of military forces and civil authorities to combat the drug cartels in his homestate of Baja California before becoming Secretary of Interior.^[7]
On 1 November 2007, he was appointed Secretary General of the Government of Baja California by Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán.^[8] In 2009, he was named as a possible candidate for the office of Attorney General of the Republic. On 14 July 2010, President Felipe Calderón named him Secretary of the Interior to replace Fernando Gómez Mont.
Blake Mora promoted Felipe Calderón's strategy of eradicating the organized crime in Mexico and the notoriously corruption-plagued state and police forces. The British newspaper The Guardian described Blake Mora as Mexico's number-two official in fighting the drug cartels, after the president.^[9] In addition, Blake Mora carried out the project for new national identity card for underage people, with modern features that included digitalized fingerprints and iris images saved in government databases, which was intended to prevent criminals from using false IDs.^[10]

Death

Blake Mora died in a helicopter accident along with seven other people in Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, Estado de México, just outside Mexico City.^[11] There were no survivors.^[12] The helicopter, an Aérospatiale Super Puma,^[13] was traveling to Cuernavaca, Morelos for a meeting of prosecutors when it went down.^[14] Marcelo Ebrard, the Head of Government of the Federal District, said in an interview through CNN México that the helicopter was "completely destroyed," since it crashed head-on against a hill.^[15] Then, the helicopter impacted several times over the terrain as the pilot tried to land the aircraft safely.^[16]
Reports state that early in the morning before Blake Mora left Mexico City, the helicopter took a few minutes to take off due to dense fog, which has made observers speculate that visibility was a major factor of the collision.^[17] After the helicopter failed to arrive at the estimated time, aircraft were sent to investigate the situation, and eventually reported the damaged helicopter at 11:12 a.m. local time.^[18] Along with Blake Mora, the following people were killed in the accident: Felipe Zamora, General of Legal Affairs; José Alfredo García Medina, Director of Social Communications; Diana Hayton Sánchez, Blake Mora's secretary; René de León Zapien, Lieutenant General; Felipe Cortés and Pedro Ramón Escobar, both Air Force lieutenants; and Jorge Luis Juárez Gómez, Army Sergeant.^[19]
Although not confirmed, some sources claimed that the President Felipe Calderón had plans to travel in the helicopter that Blake Mora was killed in, and was awaiting the flight until the accident occurred.^[20] President Calderón said that the helicopter was flying in foggy conditions, and that the crash "was probably an accident."^[21] Investigations regarding his death were carried out immediately after the accident.^[22] The death of Blake Mora is the second loss in this position during the Calderón presidency, the first one being Juan Camilo Mouriño, who died in a plane crash in 2008.^[23]
Blake Mora's last Twitter post before his death recalled the previous death of the former Secretary of Interior, Juan Camilo Mouriño:

“

Today we remember Juan Camilo Mouriño three years after his passing, a human being who worked to construct a better Mexico.[24]

”

Reactions

•  United States – The president of the United States, Barack Obama, "called to tell President Calderón that he was shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of the Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, along with, apparently, seven of his Mexican government colleagues, in a helicopter crash earlier today.^[25] Obama said that his thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who were lost, with President Calderón, and with the Mexican people. The United States worked closely with those who were lost in this crash and considered them to be close partners, and know that they were strong public servants for the Mexican people.^[25] And the President reinforced his commitment to the close partnership between the United States and Mexico in this difficult time and committed to stay in close touch with President Calderón going forward."^[25]

•  United Nations (Translation): "The news filled us with dismay... [and we] respectfully unite in the national mourning."^[26]

•  Mexico – The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, said that Blake Mora was not only an exceptional public servant, but also was an "exceptional Mexican." They gave a speech and said that Mexico had lost a "great patriot and a good friend," and promised to work to the best of his abilities to bring the causes of the accident and bring transparency.^[27]

•  PAN – The National Action Party remembered that Blake Mora was a "politician of huge trajectory."^[28] "We reiterate our trust in the Federal government to lead the investigations of Blake Mora's death."^[29]

•  PRI – The Institutional Revolutionary Party asked for a transparent investigation and clear reasons to uncover the unfortunate incident.^[30]

• PRD – The Party of the Democratic Revolution send its condolences to Blake Mora's family and those of the passengers killed. They awaited the upcoming results of the investigations.^[31]

• PVEM – The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico expressed its condolences to the president Felipe Calderón for the irreparable loss of a "close collaborator" and good friend of his. They united in the national mourning.^[32]

Controversy

The question of whether this incident was a mere coincidence or a conspiracy has been discussed in numerous newspapers, blogs, and other internet sites.^{[33][34][35][36]} However, President Calderón has tried to quell any suggestions of sabotage, saying Blake Mora's helicopter "was always under guard" in the hangar of Mexico's equivalent of the Secret Service and that it had recently undergone maintenance.^[37] Before Blake Mora, Juan Camilo Mouriño, who was also head of the Interior, was killed in an airplane accident on November 4, 2008 with the presidential security adviser Jose Luis Vasconcelos and six other officials.^[38] And in September 21, 2005, Ramón Martín Huerta, the former Public Security Secretary, also died in a helicopter accident with José Antonio Bernal, who worked for the Human Rights Commission,^[39] Tomás Valencia, head chief of the Federal Police in Mexico, and six other officials.^[40] Although not proven, these high-profile deaths have fueled speculations on whether they were foul plays by the drug cartels.^[41]
Moreover, the death of Blake Mora and the seven others in a helicopter crash puts into relevance the fact that Mexico has no law or protocol that would prevent senior officials from flying in the same aircraft, as in other governments worldwide, to preserve the integrity of government and decision makers. Mexican law has no protocols to prevent the president or his cabinet, including members of the Legislature or the Judiciary, from travelling in the same vehicle for security reasons.^[42] In addition, CNN México announced that soon after the death of Mexico's interior secretary, one Twitter user posted on Blake Mora's page a day before his death caught the attention of the media. At the time of the plane crash, only 14 hours had passed since the tweet was posted.^[43] One individual under the username @Morf0 posted the following message on Blake Mora's Twitter page:^[44]

“

Tomorrow at 11:11 a Secretary will fall from the sky ... avoid Reforma.[45]

”

Nevertheless, the man that posted the Twitter message was interviewed through a phone call on live television, and claimed that his tweet was a prank among a community of internet surfers that were attempting to make predictions online.^[46][47][48] On another note, Hiram Fernando Escobar said his brother Pedro, co-pilot of the ship, told him two days before the incident that the helicopter was not ready to travel on Friday, the day he crashed in a mountainous area south of Mexico City.^[49] Pedro Escobar allegedly told his brother that the helicopter was "not well" and presented signs of failure.^[50] In addition, the helicopter, an Aérospatiale Super Puma, was bought from a casino in the United States in 1985, and had been used for governmental purposes in Mexico since 1987.^[51] The controversy lies on the idea that the helicopter was "out-of-date" and that it was bought with a considerable amount of flight hours.^[52]

Investigations

Aeronautic specialists from United States, Mexico, and France, along with Eurocopter, are assisting the Mexican government investigate the helicopter accident that killed Blake Mora.^[53] President Calderon has solicited help from the National Transportation Safety Board, a U.S. agency specialized in aviation accidents, as well as France's BEA to work together in the investigation regarding the secretary's death.^[54] Experts in the Mexican Air Force will also be aiding in the investigations.^[55] After preliminary investigation and visual contacts of the accident, the wreckage did not show any damage caused by an explosion or fire, which has made investigators deduce that the collision was due to poor visibility.^[56] Investigations by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation prove that the pilot of the helicopter did not lose control of the aircraft. Initial investigations show that the coordinates of where accident occurred coincide with the last record taken by the helicopter's radar.^[57] Moreover, government sources mention that the pilot of the helicopter took a different route in an attempt to escape the cloudiness and find a lower and more visible trajectory to their destination, but eventually wrecked in a hill known as Ayaqueme, situated in the municipality of Chalco.^[58]
Forensic investigations and autopsies show that "...all (the deaths) were (caused by) traumas," since the bodies came very complete, and doctors mention that the cause of death of all occupants of the helicopter was due to a very severe impact.^[59] Moreover, experts mention that if the helicopter had flown 200 feet (60 meters) higher or 300 meters further south, the helicopter would have not crashed. The reasons why the pilot decided to fly over 200 miles per hour against the mainland, without opening the landing gear, still remains a mystery.^[60]

Aftermath

After Blake's death, his functions as Secretary of the Interior were temporarily assumed by the Secretary of Government, Juan Marcos Gutiérrez, while President Calderón appoints a new secretary.^[61] Several academics and journalists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, the Universidad Veracruzana, and CNN México have debated the possible impacts Blake Mora's death can have on Mexico's drug policy and politics.^[62][63] In addition, CNN has sponsored tweets on Twitter and forum discussions on Facebook through the program known as Mexico Opina to allow people to debate and analyze the causes and consequences of Blake Mora's death.^[64][65]
Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, named Alejandro Poiré Romero as the new interior minister, six days after the previous head of the agency, Francisco Blake Mora, died on a helicopter accident.^[66]

Legacy

Felipe Calderón inaugurated a boulevard in Tijuana, Baja California called "José Francisco Blake Mora" on 11 October 2012.^[67]

Personal life

According to information published by sources of Baja California, Blake Mora used to go to Mass every Sunday with his family and spend all day together, and share important dates, like Father's Day, with his loved ones.^[68] In addition, he used to spend quality time fishing, a hobby his father taught him when he was young.^[68]

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