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The former president dies at his home in Cuernavaca. His Government, between 1970 and 1976, was marked by economic crisis and social persecution. He was also accused of forced disappearances of dissidents during the so-called “dirty war”,
Luis Echeverria Alvarezformer president of Mexico (1970-1976), related to the repression of dissidents and the so-called “dirty war”, He died at the age of 100, the government reported this Saturday. “On behalf of the Government of Mexico, I send respectful condolences to the family and friends” of Echeverría, who died Friday night in the city of Cuernavaca near Mexico City, the left-wing president wrote. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. He was the president who guided Mexico between 1970 and 1976 with a populist and hypernationalist style. Echeverría (Mexico City, 1922) became president in December 1970 after defeating the right-wing candidate, Efraín González Morfín, by ten million votes.
To Echeverría, from the once hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), He was accused of being one of the responsible for the student massacres of October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolcowhen he was Secretary of the Interior (Interior), and on June 10, 1971 in the streets of Mexico City, when he was president.
The former president, a lawyer by profession, was the first former president brought to trialaccused of genocide for the massacre of some 200 students in the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City by the former Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the Past (Femospp).
Arrest warrants were issued and a house arrest was issued, but due to his age he evaded jail and was exonerated of all charges in 2009 due to lack of evidence, leaving his predecessor, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, solely responsible, by then already deceased.
He was also accused of forced disappearances of dissidents during the so-called “dirty war”which spanned from 1960 to 1980.
His death is recorded two weeks after the government opened the military archives to relatives of victims of that stage on the forced disappearances of people for political reasons during the 1970s, in order to clarify the facts.
At the diplomatic level, after the overthrow of the then president of Chile, Salvador Allende, the government of Echeverría broke off diplomatic relations with that country in 1974 and welcomed Chilean refugees.
After his presidency, Echeverría, father of 8 children, three of them deceased, was ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, among other diplomatic positions.
(with AFP)
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