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  Blog of Death: Jose Lopez Portillo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In response, Lopez Portillo promised to defend the peso "like a dog." In 1982, he devalued it by 41.7 percent.
Born in 1920, Lopez Portillo studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Lopez Portillo died on Feb. 17 from complications of pneumonia.
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 José López Portillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
José López Portillo y Pacheco (16 June 1920 17 February 2004) was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
In spite of the massive amounts of foreign exchange these discoveries earned for the state-owned oil company Pemex, López Portillo's administration was accused of rampant corruption, excessive overseas borrowing, hyperinflation, and responsibility for violent devaluations of the peso.
López Portillo was the last nationalist president to emerge from the ranks of the PRI.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo dies at 83
Lopez Portillo died at Angeles del Pedregal Hospital in Mexico City, where he was being treated for pneumonia, according to family members and medical officials.
Lopez Portillo was the eldest son of two children of a soldier and bureaucrat who had difficulty making ends meet.
Lopez Portillo was serving as treasury secretary when President Luis Echeverria tapped him as his successor, assuring his election in a country dominated by the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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 José López Portillo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
José López Portillo y Pacheco (16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
One of his last actions as president, announced during his annual State of the Nation address on September 1, 1982, was to order the nationalization of the country's banking system.
López Portillo was the last nationalist President from Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - José López Portillo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
JOSÉ López Portillo, as president of Mexico between 1976 and 1982, brought his nation to the brink of economic collapse and triggered a global debt crisis.
López Portillo was tall and handsome, with a ready smile, and his voluble personality contrasted favourably with the sullenness of his predecessor.
López Portillo appointed her tourism minister and bought her a $2 million mansion in Acapulco; when his wife, in a fit of pique, appropriated the house, the president simply purchased another villa for Alegría.
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 Boston.com / News / World / Jose Lopez Portillo, former leader, dies
Lopez Portillo, who took office as Mexico was bogged down in its worst economic recession since World War II, promised to bring better times for all -- especially to the millions of people struggling...
Lopez Portillo, who took office as Mexico was bogged down in its worst economic recession since World War II, promised to bring better times for all -- especially to the millions of people struggling on the edge of poverty.
Lopez Portillo wept during his last state-of-the-nation address, apologizing that he had not done enough for the poor.
www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/02/18/jose_lopez_portillo_former_leader_dies   (673 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mexico's ex-president Lopez Portillo dies - Feb. 18, 2004
Lopez Portillo, who led the country from 1976 to 1982, died Tuesday at a Mexico City hospital, according to family members and medical officials.
Tall, balding and blustery, Lopez Portillo often referred to himself as the last of the country's presidents who remained loyal to the "true ideals" of the bloody 1910-20 revolution, promising to bring prosperity for all, especially to the millions of Mexicans struggling on the edge of poverty.
Lopez Portillo vowed to defend the value of the peso "like a dog," days before he expropriated Mexico's private banks and imposed tight currency exchange controls.
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 AllRefer.com - JosE LOpez Portillo y Pacheco (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
JosE LOpez Portillo y Pacheco, Mexican History, Biographies
JosE LOpez Portillo y Pacheco[lO´pAz pOrtE´yO E pAchAkO] Pronunciation Key, 1920–;, Mexican political leader and president (1976–82).
As president, LOpez Portillo developed Mexico's oil reserves, but faced a national financial crisis at the end of his term.
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 The Seattle Times: Obituaries: José Lopez Portillo, ex-leader of Mexico, dies at 83   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MEXICO CITY —; Former Mexican President José Lopez Portillo, who presided over what is widely described as the most corrupt administration in Mexican history from 1976 to 1982, died yesterday from complications from pneumonia contracted earlier in the week.
The PRI held grip on the presidency for 71 years until it was ousted by President Vicente Fox in a July 2000 general election.
Lopez Portillo was also plagued by charges related to the so-called "dirty war" against peasant rebels and leftist students in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 Former Mexican president dies - World News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Aged 83, Lopez Portillo ruled from 1976 to 1982 and presided over an oil boom that fed some of the worst corruption excesses ever seen in Mexico in an administration characterized by nepotism and graft.
Lopez Portillo died without facing trial for hundreds of deaths and disappearances of leftists during Mexico's "dirty war," for which rights groups blame him and former president Luis Echeverria (1970-1976).
At the end of his rule, Lopez Portillo divorced his first wife, Carmen Romano, with whom he had three children, and lived for 16 years with his lover, actress Sasha Montenegro, before marrying her in 1995.
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 Prelude to Disaster: José López Portillo and the Crash of 1976
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 political crisis of the JLP era has its roots in the policies of repression promoted by Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría; but the first signs of real economic trouble came in 1976, when the fragility of Mexico's financial system was exposed by the devaluation of the peso and the debt crisis that followed.
López Portillo is quoted as saying that Echeverría's authority must not be diluted and that he, López Portillo, does not want a piece of an action which he cannot control.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Former president Jose Lopez Portillo dies
Medical officials said Lopez Portillo died at Angeles del Pedregal Hospital in Mexico City, where he was being treated for pneumonia.
Lopez Portillo took office as Mexico was bogged down in its worst economic recession since World War II.
In recent years, Lopez Portillo had been in poor health, undergoing emergency double bypass heart surgery in 2001.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/20040217-2011-obit-lopezportillo.html   (220 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Mexico says goodbye to controversial former president
Lopez Portillo was to be buried Friday in a private ceremony at a military cemetery.
Sworn in during one of Mexico's worst economic recessions, Lopez Portillo used an oil boom and a flood of foreign loans to bring the country unprecedented prosperity.
Lopez Portillo's son, Jose Ramon, said late Tuesday that his father wanted his children to oversee the disposition of his estate – angering Montenegro who showed up at the hospital and suggested the children had caused their father's death.
signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/20040218-1459-mexico-lopezportillo.html   (477 words)

  
 Historical Text Archive: Articles: López Portillo, José, and The Financial Crisis of 1982   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
López Portillo, José, and The Financial Crisis of 1982
López Portillo was very close with the Secretary of Public Education and National Patrimony, José Vasconcelos.
López Portillo believed that foreign investment would help Mexico to increase their economic status since domestically, the country was not surviving.
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 HISTORY OF MEXICO -BLACK GOLD, FOOL'S GOLD: THE OILING OF A CRISIS - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
In López Portillo's case, it was oil rather than a brain virus that transformed him into a spendthrift that made Echeverría look like Ebenezer Scrooge.
Between 1976 and 1980, López Portillo rode the crest of the wave.
Pressure on the peso was increasing but such was López Portillo's hubris that his response was a blustering statement that he would "fight like a dog" to defend the peso.
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 José López - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 José Celestino L. José Luis L. José María L. José Manuel L. Juan José L. José López Portillo y Pacheco (Mexico City, 16 June 1920 17 February 2004) was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
José López Portillo y Rojas was a Mexican writer.
José López Rodero is a Spanish film maker, producer of films like El Sueño del mono loco and Carlos Saura's Flamenco and of TV series Celia.
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 USATODAY.com - Ex-Mexican president Lopez Portillo dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jose Lopez Portillo, who served as Mexico's president from 1976 through 1982, died Tuesday, family members and medical officials announced.
Lopez Portillo died at Angeles del Pedregal Hospital in Mexico City, where he was being treated for pneumonia.
In recent years, Lopez Portillo had been in poor health, undergoing emergency double bypass heart surgery in 2001 to repair damage caused by blockage in his arteries.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-17-lopez-portillo-obit_x.htm   (361 words)

  
 Reflections on the Life of Jose Lopez Portillo y Pacheco (1920-2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Jose López Portillo is best known as the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party was the strongest point of the PRI's seven decades in power.
Married with two children, Portillo made his mistress Minister of Tourism, his son Jose Assistant Minister of Programming, and by 1981-sadly-87 cents of every dollar of assets of Pemex-the state oil monopoly-were owed to foreign banks-one fifth of Mexico's foreign debt.
Portillo, seemed a strong, confident, powerful and charismatic leader capable of bringing his Mexico to economic prosperity through the PRI Party's connections and political influence.
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 Few mourn ex-Mexican leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
López Portillo, who ruled from 1976 to 1982, died Tuesday night at 83 of complications from pneumonia and other illnesses.
López Portillo, who ran unopposed for the presidency under the all-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, was more like a Soviet leader imposed on the Mexican people than an elected president, said Mr.
López Portillo said he was at peace with his legacy.
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 On Jose Lopez Portillo: 'For His Patriotism'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Don José López Portillo, the last President of the Mexican Revolution, died on the night of Feb. 17, 2004.
After a few minutes, López Portillo's widow came in and we stepped aside for her, and again for the entire family.
López Portillo out, we began to sing “Oh, Freedom,” first in a Spanish version, then in the English version, then again in the Spanish.
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 Interview with Former Mexican President José López Portillo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
López Portillo: I was fully aware as head of state, as I am as a Mexican, that the country should be competitive within the arena of western development.
López Portillo: This is the only issue of current affairs of Mexico about which I have said anything, since, as ex-President, I have respected the unwritten rule in my country, that ex-Presidents do not intervene in domestic affairs.
L.H. LaRouche of respect for his solidly independent and tenacious ideological position, which I share in large measure, largely because of the adherence he had achieved from a group of young Mexicans, whom I equally respect and admire, who even had to endure accusations of belonging to the CIA, which turned out to be false.
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 Lopez Portillo, Jose --  Encyclopædia Britannica
López Portillo attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Chile.
Born on Jan. 6, 1957, Nancy Lopez starting playing golf at the age of 8 and turned professional after her sophomore year in college.
She won 9 of 24 tournaments in her rookie year, including a record-setting five in a row, and she was named the 1978 LPGA Player and Rookie of the Year.
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 Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, whose term from 1976 to 1982 began with an oil boom and ended in the country's last foreign debt default, died of pneumonia in his native Mexico City.
Lopez Portillo's son Jose Ramon, speaking at a televised news conference at the Angeles Hospital in southern Mexico City, said his father passed away at 8:15 p.m.
Lopez Portillo served as finance minister under President Luis Echeverria before succeeding him as president in 1976.
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