Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios (born October 26, 1927 in Veracruz , † October 30, 2000 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician .
biography
After joining the armed forces (Ejército Mexicano) and graduating from the military academy (Colégio Militar) in 1947, he entered the police force and in 1950 became a member of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party.
In the early 1950s he was promoted to captain and in 1955 entered the service of the Directorate for Federal Security (Dirección Federal de Seguridad, DFS), an agency of the Federal Police of the Interior Ministry, which was known for the arrest, torture and murder of government opponents. At that time he was responsible for the military training of Fidel Castro when he was in exile in Mexico . In 1964 he became director of the DFS and held this office until 1970. During his tenure, dozens of opposition activists were probably murdered. In this function he was jointly responsible for the Tlatelolco massacre on October 2, 1968, when a massacre was carried out by the "Batallón Olimpia" of around 250 students in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City at the height of the student protests .
Gutiérrez was then in the governments of Presidents Luis Echeverría Álvarez and José López Portillo from 1970 to 1982 Deputy Minister of the Interior (Subsecretaría de Gobierno). During this time, too, he was responsible for repression measures against guerrillas and peasant movements .
Between 1986 and 1988 he was governor of the state of Veracruz . In 1988 he was finally appointed Minister of the Interior ( Secretarío de Gobernación ) by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari himself and thus held the second highest office in the government for almost the entire term of office of the President until 1993.
After leaving the government, he ran for the PRI for a seat in the Senate of Congress and was a member of it until his death.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gutiérrez Barrios, Fernando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veracruz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 2000 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |