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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 7,876 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). José López Portillo y Pacheco is the 5,358th most popular politician (down from 4,779th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 56th in 2019) and the 26th 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 5,358 out of 19,576. Before him are Osorkon II, Rami Hamdallah, Yang You, Butvydas, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus, and Chief Seattle. After him are Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Walter Warlimont, Christian Wulff, Robert III of Worms, Archduke Eugen of Austria, and Frederick II, Elector Palatine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 87. Before him are Gottfried Böhm, Mehdi Ben Barka, Peter D. Mitchell, Mario Benedetti, Hans Blumenberg, and Henri Verneuil. After him are Jaan Kross, Franklin J. Schaffner, Karl Albrecht, John Harsanyi, Ben Ferencz, and Ricardo Montalbán. Among people deceased in 2004, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 54. Before him are Norberto Bobbio, Brian Clough, Julia Child, Otto Kumm, Elmer Bernstein, and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. After him are Sacha Distel, Carlos Lacoste, Nikolai Chernykh, Matthäus Hetzenauer, John Pople, and Philip Abelson.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 62 out of 729. Before him are Nezahualcoyotl (1402), Acamapichtli (1325), Luis Echeverría (1922), Helena Rojo (1944), Axayacatl (1449), and Antonio Carbajal (1929). After him are Vicente Fernández (1940), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1948), Thalía (1971), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Miguel de la Madrid (1934), and Pedro Infante (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 26. Before him are Ahuitzotl (1486), Guadalupe Victoria (1786), José María Morelos (1765), Acamapichtli (1325), Luis Echeverría (1922), and Axayacatl (1449). After him are Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1948), Miguel de la Madrid (1934), Pedro Lascuráin (1856), Itzcoatl (1380), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1911), and Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897).

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