Until dawn, they had appeared to offer their condolences, Jorge de la Vega Domínguez, who directed the National Popular Subsistence Company (Conasupo, today Segalmex) in the Echeverrist six-year term; Sergio García Ramírez, former prosecutor; Juan Velázquez, lawyer, and Augusto Gómez Villanueva, deputy.
The absence of officials from the current government of López Obrador was notorious. The presence of Ignacio Ovalle was expected, who was private secretary of Echeverría Álvarez in the presidency of the Republic and today is director of the National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development of the Ministry of the Interior.
In the López Obrador administration, Ovalle was in charge of the new Mexican Food Security (Segalmex) that united Diconsa and Liconsa, but the Ministry of Public Function detected an alleged diversion of money, for which it filed a lawsuit with the Prosecutor’s Office General of the Republic that caused the dismissal of a dozen officials.
Luis Echeverria is dead
Echeverría Álvarez died Friday night at his home in Cuernavaca, Morelos, at the age of 100.
The diplomat and lawyer born in Mexico City, January 17, 1922, was the longest-living former president, surpassing Mexican rulers such as Porfirio Díaz, who died at the age of 85 (1830-1915) and José López Portillo (1920- 2004), his successor and who passed away at 84.
