Background
Son of Manuel Bartlett Bautista, former governor of Tabasco; mother, Isabel Diaz Castilla, was the daughter of noted rebel Salvador Díaz Mirón.
Son of Manuel Bartlett Bautista, former governor of Tabasco; mother, Isabel Diaz Castilla, was the daughter of noted rebel Salvador Díaz Mirón.
Early education unknown.
Law degree, with an honorable mention, National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1959;
courses in public administration towards a Ph.D., Victoria University, Manchester, England, as a fellow of the British Council;
studies in law, School of Law, Paris, France, 1959-61, on a fellowship from the French government and National Autonomous University.
Auxiliary Secretary to Carlos Madrazo as president of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1964-65;
General delegate of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party to Sinaloa during confrontation between Madrazo and Leopoldo Sánchez Cells, 1964—65;
Director general of La República, official organ of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1963;
organized the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Institutional Revolutionary Party patterned after the Spanish Falange;
Adviser to Miguel de la Madrid on relations with Institutional Revolutionary Party during his presidential campaign, 1981;
Secretary General of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1981-82.
Adviser to the Director General of Credit, Secretary of the Treasury, 1962-64;
Subdirector of Government of the Secretariat of Government, 1969-70;
Auxiliary Secretary to Mario Moya Palencia, Secretary of Government, 1969-70;
Secretary of the Federal Electoral Commission, 1970-76;
Director General of Government of the Secretariat of Government, 1970-76;
Director in Chief of Political Affairs, Secretariat of Foreign Relations, 1977-79;
Adviser to Miguel de la Madrid as Secretary of Planning and Budgeting, 1979-81.
Auxiliary Secretary to Jorge Rojo Gómez as secretary general of the CNC, 1962-63.
Remained with Lauro Ortega after Madrazo left the presidency of Institutional Revolutionary Party; supported Mario Moya Palencia for the presidency