Background
Miguel de la Madrid was born on 12 December 1934 in Colima.
Miguel de la Madrid was born on 12 December 1934 in Colima.
Took his law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard, the first Mexican president to hold a graduate degree from a U.S. university.
He served as assistant finance director for Pemex, the government s oil corporation, public credit director for the Finance Ministry, and then minister of planning and the budget in the José López Portillo cabinet.
De la Madrid was inaugurated as president on December 1, 1982.