Luis Echeverría Alvarez, President of Mexico. Student delegate to the Free World Youth Association, 1943; founder of Students for Revolutionary Action, 1947.
Background
Echeverría Alvarez, Luis was born on January 17, 1922 in Federal District, Mexico. Brother, Eduardo, was a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party and President of the Technical Council of the Subsecretary of Public Health, 1974. Brother, Rodolfo, was Director General of the National Cinema Bank.
Nephew, Rodolfo Echeverría, Jr., was Oficial Mayor of Institutional Revolutionary Party and a Federal Deputy. Son, Rodolfo, was director of industrial development of the Secretariat of Agriculture at the time of his death in 1983. Political disciple of Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada.
Studied under Alfonso Noriega and Luis Garrido Díaz at the National University. Knew Luis M. Farias as a student at United Nations AM. Son-in-law of José Zuño Hernández, former governor of Jalisco.
Education
Primary studies in Mexico City and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. Secondary in Mexico City. Preparatory at the National Preparatory School, 1938-1940.
Special studies in Chile, Argentina, Paris, and the United States on a scholarship, 1941. Law studies from the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1940-1944. Law degree, August, 1945, with a thesis on “The Balance of Power System and the Society of Nations”.
Professor of Legal Theory at the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1947-1949.
Career
President of Mexico, 1970-1976. Joined Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1946. Private Secretary to the President of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, 1946.
Assistant Secretary to the Regional Director of Institutional Revolutionary Party for the Federal District, Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, 1946. Platform Adviser to Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1946. Secretary of Press and Publicity of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1946-1952.
General Delegate of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1948. President of the Regional Committee of the State of Guanajuato. Representative of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party to Sánchez Colin’s campaign for Governor of México, 1951.
Oficial Mayor of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1957-1958. Director of Accounts for the Secretariat of the Navy, 1952-1954. Oficial Mayor of the Secretariat of Public Education, 1954-1957.
Subsecretary of Government, 1958-1963. Subsecretary in Charge of the Secretariat of Government, 1964. Secretary of Government, 1964-1970.
Ambassador to UNESCO, 1977-1978. Ambassador to Australia, 1978-1979. Ambassador at large, 1979.
Delivered the nomination speech for Adolfo López Mateos before Institutional Revolutionary Party, November 17, 1957.
Membership
Student delegate to the Free World Youth Association, 1943. Founder of Students for Revolutionary Action, 1947.