Luis Echeverría Álvarez was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, he was Secretary of the Interior from 1963 to 1969. At the time of his death in 2022, he was his country's oldest living former head of state.
Official portrait, 1970
Echverría (third row, fifth from left) with his 6th grade class, c.1933
Echverría early in his political career, c.1940s-1950s
Echeverría as Secretary of the Interior in 1965
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946.
Central offices of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Plutarco Elías Calles on the cover of Time magazine in 1924
President Álvaro Obregón in a business suit, tailored to show that he lost his right arm in the Mexican Revolution and whose assassination in 1928 touched off a political crisis leading to the formation of the party
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, candidate of the PNR in the 1929 presidential election
