Luis Echeverria Alvarez, President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976 died on the night of Friday, July 8, sources close to him confirmed.
The Mexican politician fulfilled 100 years last January 17. On November 14, 1969, he was elected as the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (AT) to the presidency of the Republic. He won the elections 1970.
The Echeverría government sought to diversify trade and the sources of technology and financing. Throughout his tenure, the rate of inflation grew to 27 percent per year. In the latest government report he released a sharp devaluation of the peso against the dollar, the first in more than two decades.
After leaving the presidency, he was appointed ambassador of Mexico to UNESCO in Paris until 1979.
AMLO sends condolences to the family of the former president
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent his condolences to the family of the former president Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who passed away the night of Friday, July 8 at 100 years of age.
Through a message published on his social network profiles, López Obrador announced that he sent “respectful condolences to the family and friends of the lawyer Luis Echeverria Alvarez”.
“On behalf of the Government of Mexico, I send respectful condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Luis Echeverría Álvarez, president of Mexico during the six-year term from 1970 to 1976,” López Obrador published on the morning of this Saturday, July 9.