Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado

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Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (1986)

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (born December 12, 1934 in Colima , Colima , † April 1, 2012 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician ( PRI ) and from December 1, 1982 to November 30, 1988 President of Mexico .

Life

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado studied law at UNAM and later administration at Harvard . He initially works for the Banco de México and teaches at the UNAM. Between 1970 and 1972 he was an employee of the state oil company PEMEX . He then took on several roles in the government under Luis Echeverría Álvarez . In 1976 he became Minister of Economic Affairs under José López Portillo y Pacheco . He eventually won the presidential election on July 4, 1982 and was President of Mexico from December 1, 1982 to November 30, 1988.

Presidency

The beginning of the term of office was marked by severe economic problems with inflation rates of up to 100% at times, after his predecessor José López Portillo nationalized the Mexican banking system shortly before the end of his term in office. As a result of the crisis, Miguel de la Madrid shifted the domestic market orientation towards the export orientation from 1982 onwards. During this time opposition parties gained more and more influence at the sub-state level. Between 1983 and 1985 the unemployment rate grew by around 25%. Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado then carried out the neoliberal turnaround in Mexico, whose deregulation measures were very unpopular among the population. In 1986 Mexico signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

On September 19, 1985, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale and an aftershock on the following day devastated Mexico City . Between 5,000 and 20,000 people were killed in this disaster and many buildings, including schools and hospitals, collapsed, and many houses became uninhabitable. Given the size of the population, the government's reaction was slow and inadequate: it rejected foreign disaster aid and did not allow any contact between the military and the civilian population in the first few hours , which greatly slowed the rescue work.

His term of office was considered to be one of the most difficult legislative periods of all due to the many problems ahead. The approval of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's government fell rapidly. In the 1988 elections, the united left under Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas , as well as the right-oppositionist party PAN under Manuel Clouthier, ran against the PRI for election. Carlos Salinas de Gortari from the PRI won the election, but in a quote that has become famous, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado later admitted resignedly that the PRI had de facto suffered a defeat despite winning the election in 1988: “El PRI perdió las elecciones de 1988 "(The PRI lost the 1988 elections.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief History of the Mexican Presidents
  2. ^ The Impact of Liberalization of Agriculture in Mexico: from the GATT to NAFTA
personal data
SURNAME Madrid Hurtado, Miguel de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madrid, Miguel de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Colima , Colima
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2012
Place of death Mexico city