Shine Echeverría Álvarez

Luis Echeverría Álvarez (* Mexico City, January 17th 1922 -) was president of Mexico of 1970 with 1976.

Biography

He studies with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico City, UNAM, and obtained his lawyer title. In 1946 it returns to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI, where it works for the president of the Party as a secretary of the General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Shine Echeverría Álvarez the follow-up with the ministry for the Navy. He also worked at the minister of education. In 1958 it is named Minister of Interior Department. In 1964 it is named Minister of Interior Department by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. It will occupy this station during the tragedy of Tlatelolco where a studying gathering is repressed in blood the October 2nd 1968.

In 1969, Luis Echeverría Álvarez is the candidate of the PRI to the presidency of the Republic and in 1970 gains the presidential elections. He says himself of Left and surrounds by young people, of intellectuals, economists and activists related to the movement of 1968.

The July 10th 1971, there was a demonstration coed in Mexico City to support the students of Monterrey. The latter were accepted by groups of paramilitaries to the service of the State called " Los Halcones". The president denied the facts and asked for the resignation of the Chief of the Department of the federal district. These facts are known under the name of El halconazo or of the slaughter of the Corpus Christi.

Luis Echeverría Álvarez increased considerably the public expenditure which it financed by the board with tickets and the foreign debt. The government nationalized the companies in bankruptcy to support employment but this policy was a failure because of the inefficiency of the public administration and corruption.

During its mandate, foreign exchange rate fixes peso-dollar which existed since 1954 was given up and passed at the end from 12,50 to 20 pesos for 1 dollar. The external debt passed from 6 billion to 20 billion.

It made a great number of voyages in Europe, Africa and Latin America.

On the international scene, its government was close to the socialist modes of Chile and Cuba. It granted the political asylum to the wife of Salvador Allende, when this one was assassinated in 1973. But it managed of an iron hand the Mexican movements of left. It carried out the " War sale" , during which a great quantity of people were tortured and disappeared. During its mandate, the guerrilleros Genaro Vásquez and Lucio Cabañas were eliminated.

At the end of its presidency there be a wave of kidnappings and steerings of banks by guerrilleros of left. Most famous was the attempt of kidnapping and assassination of a contractor of Nuevo León, Eugenio Garza Sada, of one of its right-hand men and his/her son-in-law.

Jose López Portillo, which was its Secretario de Hacienda (Minister for the Economy) succeeded to him the head of Mexico. He was candidate at the post of Secretary of the United Nations but finally gave it to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.

June 30th 2006 a federal judge orders its arrest for the Massacre of Tlatelolco in 1968.

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