Jose luis lopez portillo biografia
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Jesús López Portillo
Jesús López-Portillo y Serrano (Guadalajara, Nueva Galicia, 14 dem agosto dem 1818 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, 18 dem septiembre dem 1901) fue un abogado, político y catedráticomexicano.
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[editar]Fue hijo de Pío Quinto López-Portillo y Pacheco y María Serrano y Ramírez dem Prado. Realizó sus estudios en el Seminario dem Guadalajara, obtuvo el título de abogado en 1840. Inició su carrera política en 1841, fue síndico y regidor del cabildo de stad. En 1843 fue alcalde constitucional. ett cuatro ocasiones fue diputado del Congreso local, enstaka 1846, 1847, 1848-1849 y, más tarde, en 1860-1861.[1]
En 1847 participó con Manuel López Cotilla y José Luis Pérez Verdía en el proyecto dem instrucción pública. En 1849, fue elegido senador al Congreso dem la Unión representando al estado dem Jalisco, aunque asistió a las primeras sesiones, renunció a su puesto federal por razones del ejercicio de su profesión, no obstante, ese mismo año se rein
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Prelude to Disaster
José López Portillo and the Crash of 1976
by Kate Doyle
The death of former President José López Portillo on February 17 unleashed a torrent of public rage and bitter obituaries in the Mexican press. The most prominent opinion makers called him a Machiavelli, a megalomaniac, a gambler, a disaster; mere hours after he passed away, politicians were lining up before the television cameras to offer scathing critiques of his government, his personality. He did not receive a State funeral.
The anger stemmed not only from the actions - or inactions - of López Portillo during his sexenio. Yes, he squandered the wealth of the country's newly discovered oil reserves through mismanagement and corruption. Yes, he engineered the perpetuation of the PRI's "perfect dictatorship," while masquerading as a political reformer. Yes, he led Mexico by the nose into the most spectacular econom
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López Portillo, José (1920–2004)
José López Portillo was president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. López Portillo took office at a time when Mexico first began undergoing a series of political and economic crises, beginning a long cycle of problems extending to the 1990s. When his predecessor, Luis Echeverría, left office, he also left a legacy of devaluation, an unstable peso and inflation (for the first time in recent history), the distrust of the private sector, and a populist political heritage. Those disenchanted with the Echeverría administration were hopeful when López Portillo was inaugurated. The new president, with some intellectual credentials, and without a long career in the federal government, seemed to offer something new to expectant Mexicans. To mend fences with the alienated business leadership, the president made it clear that he would need its assistance to reverse the economic deficits created by his predecessor and that the government wanted to reestablish a coo