Manuel de Jesús Clouthier del Rincón was a Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician. His 1988 presidential campaign challenged the dominance of Mexico's PRI party in the nation's politics, with rhetoric and protests before, during and after the elections. Although officially coming in third, he remained a prominent political force in Mexico until his death in a car accident a year after the elections.
Manuel Clouthier
1988 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1988. They were the first competitive presidential elections in Mexico since the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) took power in 1929. The elections were widely considered to have been fraudulent, with Salinas de Gortari and the PRI resorting to electoral tampering to remain in power.
Image: Carlos Salinas de Gortari in 1989
Image: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Image: Manuel Clouthier
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Secretary of Programming and Budget in the Madrid cabinet, was named presidential candidate of the PRI on 4 October 1987