Luis Echeverría Álvarez, former PRI president, dies; this was his trajectory

Mexico's former President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, an official of PRI lineage who governed from 1970 to 1976, has been announced dead. Echeverría died on Friday night, July 8, in the state of Morelos at the age of 100. Controversial figure linked to the "Matanza" of 1968 and the Halconazo. He is attributed with the "machination" of the banishment of Julios Scherer from the newspaper Excélsior. The last time he appeared in public life was at the Ciudad Universitaria vaccination, where he went for his second dose.

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