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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/world/americas/luis-echeverra-alvarez-dead.html

Luis Echeverría Alvarez, who steered Mexico on a stormy left-wing course in the 1970s as president and who never escaped the shadow of a massacre before the 1968 Olympics, died on Friday at his home in Cuernavaca. He was 100.
His death was confirmed in a tweet by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Under Mr. Echeverría, the number of government employees tripled, state-owned businesses multiplied almost eightfold, and inflation exploded, undermining years of relative economic stability.
But Mr. Echeverría may best be remembered for accusations that he was largely responsible, as interior secretary, for the repression of student-led protests in 1968 before the Mexico City Olympic Games that culminated in the killings of scores of people, perhaps as many as 300.

Nearly four decades later, he was placed under house arrest when the case was revived, a spectacular turn for a former president.

The aftermath of the massacre helped shape his presidency, which began in 1970. Seeking to make amends, he brought left-wing intellectuals into the government, gave the government broad control over the economy, and embraced third world positions in international affairs. These measures alienated the business community, the middle class, and other politically conservative groups.
By the time he left office, Mr. Echeverría was being denounced by critics across the political spectrum, accused of authoritarianism and incompetence, and assailed for policies that provoked a flight of capital abroad, a steep devaluation of the peso, and economic stagnation.
Nonetheless, he campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize and harbored hopes of becoming secretary general of the United Nations.
Born on Jan. 17, 1922, in Mexico City, the son of a civil servant, Mr. Echeverría in many ways typified the so-called “second generation” of the political elite who emerged from the country’s bloody revolution.

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In the decades after that upheaval, politics was dominated by former officers of the revolutionary armies. But by the 1940s, a degree from the prestigious law school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico had become the surest passport into politics.

After graduating from that law school, Mr. Echeverría allied himself with a strong political family by marrying María Esther Zuno, the daughter of the governor of the state of Jalisco, with whom he had eight children. He then looked around for a powerful mentor, another prerequisite for aspiring politicians. He became a protégé of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, a cabinet minister and former state governor who was clearly headed for the presidency.
When Mr. Díaz Ordaz was elected president in 1964, he appointed Mr. Echeverría as his secretary of interior, the cabinet official in charge of domestic political affairs. That post assured him of succeeding Mr. Díaz Ordaz. But it also placed Mr. Echeverría on a collision course with young leftists who chafed at one-party rule, censorship, a pro-business climate, and the strong influence of the United States.
The protesters had staged their demonstrations in the months leading up to the October 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Mr. Díaz Ordaz ordered that the protest movement be quelled in time for the Games, and Mr. Echeverría sent troops to break up campus sit-ins.
On Oct. 2, 1968, during a peaceful rally at the Tlatelolco housing development, soldiers and government security agents opened fire on the crowd. The government claimed that about 30 people died, but witnesses said that the number was as high as 300.
Mr. Echeverría had always denied that he ordered the shooting, arguing that the soldiers who carried out the attack were not under his command.

The Tlatelolco massacre ripped away the benevolent mask covering rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had governed Mexico throughout most of the 20th century.

The Mexican People we say this words





We respect the death of people, but not him.

 

[AlteredForms]

Have no idea who this man is and what he stood for. But if the Mexicans are celebrating then it's a fiesta babyyy!

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Have no idea who this man is and what he stood for. But if the Mexicans are celebrating then it's a fiesta babyyy!

Was a bastard ex-president of Mexico who economically harmed the country and a criminal responsible for ordering the assassination of students in 1968.

Tripled Mexico's foreign debt.

Destroyed the economy of Mexico.

His tenure as Secretary of the Interior during the Díaz Ordaz administration was marked by a notorious increase in political repression; where dissident journalists, politicians, and activists were subjected to censorship, arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings.

 

[Punished Miku]

Was a bastard ex-president of Mexico who economically harmed the country and a criminal responsible for ordering the assassination of students in 1968.

Tripled Mexico's foreign debt.

Destroyed the economy of Mexico.

His tenure as Secretary of the Interior during the Díaz Ordaz administration was marked by a notorious increase in political repression; where dissident journalists, politicians, and activists were subjected to censorship, arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings.

Kind of badass to make it a holiday when one of your enemies dies. We need more holidays like that where everyone can get together and say "you know what? Fuck that guy."

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Kind of badass to make it a holiday when one of your enemies dies. We need more holidays like that where everyone can get together and say "you know what? Fuck that guy."

In fact, the majority of the population of Mexico upon hearing the news gave them great joy..

Currently our president Andres Manuel López Obrador, is a president much loved by Mexico, since he has supported the population and also made Mexico have a greater impact on Development, currently in these times, we are hunting against the corrupt EX-Presidents as is the cowardly Enrique Peña Nieto and his political party.

 

[lukilladog]

Good riddance genocide.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Good riddance genocide.

indeed

Look a tthis photo of the bastard

Go to the hell You son of a B*tch Luis Echeverria.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The ex Minister of Japan is assassinated.

UK Prime Minister resigns.

James caan passed away

Hideo kojima was accused of a crime he didn't commit and Tony Sirico passed away.

Yes, it was a crazy day.

But the death of Echeverria's bastard makes me happy. Let him go to hell .