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Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo

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Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo (1911–1979)

Mexican right-wing political leader, president 1964–70. He sought to continue the reform programme instituted by Adolfo López Mateos and developed closer relations with the USA, but was criticized for the excessive force used in the crackdown against student demonstrators during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, when more than a hundred students were killed.

Educated at the University of Puebla, he became a lawyer, law professor, and judge who served in the Puebla state government before being elected as a deputy to the National Congress in 1943. He served as a senator 1946–52 and under President López Mateos he was interior minister, 1958–63. A leading member of the right-wing of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Díaz was elected president in 1964.



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