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José López Portillo y Pacheco

1920 - 2004

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José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ˈlopes poɾˈtiʝo]; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. López Portillo was the only official candidate in the 1976 presidential election, being the only president in recent Mexican history to win an election unopposed. Politically, the López Portillo administration began a process of partial political openness by passing an electoral reform in 1977 [es] which loosened the requisites for the registration of political parties (thus providing dissidents from the left, many of whom had hitherto been engaged in armed conflict against the government, with a path to legally participate in national politics) and allowed for greater representation of opposition parties in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as granting amnesty to many of the guerrilla fighters from the Dirty War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José López Portillo y Pacheco has received more than 6,964 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). José López Portillo y Pacheco is the 4,790th most popular politician (down from 4,131st in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 49th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Mexican Politician.

José López Portillo y Pacheco is most famous for being the president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. He was the first president to be elected after the Mexican Revolution. He was also the first president to come from a rural background.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 4,790 out of 15,577Before him are Magnus Barefoot, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, Gaetano Bresci, Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, Dayan Khan, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Emperor Yōmei, Norodom Suramarit, Mahmud Barzanji, Liu Zhang, Hiram Bingham III, and Walter Mondale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 76Before him are Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Setsuko Hara, Mario Beccaria, Mario Benedetti, and Albert Barillé. After him are Maurice Bucaille, Constanze Manziarly, Takashi Kano, Nobuyuki Kato, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Ovadia Yosef. Among people deceased in 2004, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 49Before him are Norberto Bobbio, John Pople, Herbert C. Brown, Julia Child, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Otto Kumm. After him are Elmer Bernstein, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Ko Yong-hui, Richard Avedon, Johnny Ramone, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 56 out of 585Before him are Luis Echeverría (1922), Mario J. Molina (1943), Ahuitzotl (1486), Miguel de la Madrid (1934), Dolores del Río (1905), and Juan Rulfo (1917). After him are Guadalupe Victoria (1786), Nezahualcoyotl (1402), José María Morelos (1765), Julia Pastrana (1834), María Félix (1914), and Axayacatl (1449).

Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 25Before him are Álvaro Obregón (1880), Victoriano Huerta (1850), Vicente Guerrero (1782), Luis Echeverría (1922), Ahuitzotl (1486), and Miguel de la Madrid (1934). After him are Guadalupe Victoria (1786), José María Morelos (1765), Axayacatl (1449), Acamapichtli (1325), Tizoc (1436), and Itzcoatl (1380).