Echeverría Álvarez

[ ech-uh-vuh-ree-uh al-vuh-rez; Spanish e-che-ver-ree-ah ahl-vah-res ]

noun

1. Luis [lwees], 1922–2022, Mexican political leader: president of Mexico 1970–76.

Example Sentences

The Juárez statue, given to the city in the 1970s by then-Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, is being moved to downtown’s El Pueblo, according to a sign posted on the construction board covering the artifacts’ former home at City Hall.

From Los Angeles Times

Luis Echeverría Álvarez was born in Mexico City on Jan. 17, 1922, and received a bachelor’s and a law degree at the National Autonomous University.

From Washington Post

Luis Echeverría Alvarez, who steered Mexico on a stormy left-wing course in the 1970s as president and who never escaped the shadow of a massacre before the 1968 Olympics, died on Friday at his home in Cuernavaca.

From New York Times

That’s why Cuarón displayed President Luis Echeverría Álvarez’s initials on a hill behind the training paramilitaries.

From New York Times

Decades later, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who was the interior minister at the time, was blamed for orchestrating the Tlatelolco massacre, but not before being elected president in 1970, a time when elections were heavily rigged in favor of the ruling party.

From Slate