Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
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Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. Previously, he served as a member of th
Díaz in 1967
A young Díaz Ordaz in 1938, behind President Lázaro Cárdenas (front row, center), and future presidents Manuel Ávila Camacho (front row, farthest to the left), and Miguel Alemán (front row immediately left of center).
Portrait of President Díaz Ordaz, c. 1964–1969
Díaz Ordaz at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
Adolfo López Mateos
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Adolfo López Mateos was a centre-left Mexican politician and lawyer who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Previously, he served as Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1952 to 195
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
…1943 to 1946. Subsequently, he represented the same state in the Chamber of Senators from 1946 to 1952 becoming closely acquainted with then-senator Adolfo López Mateos. Díaz Ordaz was a CIA asset, known by the cryptonym, LITEMPO-2. Díaz Ordaz joined the campaign of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines for the 1952 election and…
López Mateos in 1963
López Mateos, c.1920s
National Museum of Anthropology building, opened in 1964
President Adolfo López Mateos next to the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the President John F. Kennedy, during their visit to Mexico in 1962