Luis Echeverria, Mexican Leader in Repressive Time, Dies at 100
- His PRI party governed Mexico for seven consecutive decades
- He was infamous for his role in two massacres of students
Luis Echeverria Alvarez, in 2002.
Photographer: Jorge Uzon/AFP/Getty Images
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Luis Echeverria Alvarez, who was Mexico’s interior minister and then president during the darkest days of one-party rule and repression, has died. He was 100.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Echeverria’s death and wrote his condolences to the former leader’s friends and family in a Twitter post. Echeverria died on Friday night, El Financiero reported.