Here are 10 facts and controversies about him:
1 – Echeverría studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)where he was professor of General Theory of the State.
2 – In 1946 he enrolled in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)where he held various positions as Senior Official of the National Executive Committee (CEN).
3 – Echeverría was the Secretary of the Interior, in charge of national security, during the massacre of October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco. The ex-president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz In his memoirs he assumed responsibility for this repression but not the guilt, which he said, was shared by Echeverría and other officials of his government.
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
4 – Luis Echeverría Álvarez was president from December 1, 1970 to November 30, 1976.
5-A Echeverría is also attributed responsibility for a second student repression that occurred during his term, on June 10, 1971, with a balance of 17 dead, an event known as “the halconazo”.
