Editing Luis Echeverría (section)

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{{Important}}'''Luis Echeverría Álvarez''' (January 17, 1922 - July 8, 2022) was a Mexican politician and lawyer, member of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] (PRI) and president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.

He was born in 1922 in Mexico City and in 1946 he joined the PRI, where he worked for the party's president, as secretary to General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada.

In 1958 he was appointed Undersecretary of the Interior. In 1964 he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]]. At this time the tragic [[Tlatelolco Massacre]] occurred on October 2, 1968.

In 1969 he was chosen as PRI candidate for the presidential elections, being the winner and assuming the presidency.