* 1920 – José López Portillo, Mexican politician, 31st President of Mexico ( d. 2004 )

** José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.

* June 16 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico ( d. 2004 )

José López Portillo

* February 17 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico ( b. 1920 )

Nava said: " We were filming in Mexico during the end of the López Portillo presidency, one of the last of the old-fashioned caciques to rule Mexico.

Echeverría designated José López Portillo, his secretary of Finance, as his successor for the term 1976-82, hoping that the new administration would have a tighter control on inflation and to preserve political unity.

During his campaign, López Portillo promised to defend the peso " like a dog ", López Portillo refused to devalue the currency saying " The president who devalues, devalues himself.

" The discovery of significant oil sites in Tabasco and Campeche helped the economy to recover and López Portillo promised to " administer the abundance ".

Mexico increased its international presence during López Portillo: in addition to becoming the world's fourth oil exporter, Mexico restarted relations with the post Franco-Spain in 1977, allowed Pope John Paul II to visit Mexico, welcomed American president Jimmy Carter and broke relations with Somoza and supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front in its rebellion against the United States supported government.

López Portillo also proposed the Plan Mundial de Energéticos in 1979 and summoned a North-South World Summit in Cancún in 1981 to seek solutions to social problems.

López Portillo also freed political prisoners and proposed a reform called Ley Federal de Organizaciones Políticas y Procesos Electorales which gave official registry to opposition groups such as the Partido Demócrata Mexicano and the Partido Comunista Mexicano.

* Mauricio González de la Garza, Mexican writer, journalist and composer took refuge in Falfurrias following the publication of his book " Última Llamada ", where he was forced into exile after threats and persecutions suffered under the presidency of José López Portillo.

In the early 1980s, Mexican President José López Portillo suggested that Mexcaltitán, also in Nayarit, was the true location of Aztlán, but this was denounced by Mexican historians as a political move.

He was president after López Portillo.

" He also spent long periods in New York City and on the Mediterranean, until President José López Portillo issued a decree nationalising Mexico's banking system and greatly devaluing its currency overnight.

José López Portillo y Pacheco ( June 16, 1920 – February 17, 2004 ) was the 51st President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.

Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in 1959.

López Portillo undertook an ambitious program to promote Mexico's economic development with revenues stemming from the discovery of new petroleum reserves in the states of Veracruz and Tabasco by Petróleos Mexicanos ( Pemex ), the country's publicly owned oil company.

López Portillo undertook actions which were highly controversial with respect to the international banking establishment.

López Portillo was the last nationalist president to emerge from the ranks of the PRI.

López Gutiérrez also solicited support from the liberal government of Guatemala and even from the conservative regime in Nicaragua.

The United States also negotiated a secret arrangement with Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican general and dictator who had been overthrown in 1844.

When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.

The elder López also had infuriated the Brazilians by not helping overthrow Rosas in 1852 and by forcing Brazilian garrisons out of territory claimed by Paraguay in 1850 and 1855.

Antonio López also resented having been forced to grant Brazil free navigation rights on the Río Paraguay in 1858.

He also recruited General Bernadino Caballero, a war hero with close ties to López.

Emilio Massera, who was part of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla from 1976 to 1978, José López Rega, minister of Social Welfare in Perón's government and founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A "), and General Guillermo Suárez Mason were also members.

Nevertheless, MRTA also engaged in criminal acts ; it resorted to assassinations, such as in the case of General Enrique López Albújar, the taking of hostages and the systematic practice of kidnapping, all crimes that violate not only personal liberty but the international humanitarian law that the MRTA claimed to respect.

In Linares the Segovia Museum " Fundación Andrés Segovia " was established in May 1995 and this birth-town of Segovia, also has a bronze statue in his honour, created by Julio López Hernández and unveiled on 25 May 1984.

López also participated in Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real, where she played a victim of rape that later turned lesbian.

He can also been seen as the first " caudillo " or charismatic dictator who used a combination of widespread popularity and threat of violence toward opposition to rule and would be followed by the likes of Antonio López de Santa Anna and Porfirio Díaz.

During this time, he also started working with the political satire and comedy group Los Rayos Gamma, together with journalist Eddie López.

López de Legazpi established a settlement there on June 24, 1571 and he also ordered the construction of the walled city of Intramuros.

Cámpora represented the left wing, while López Rega represented the right wing ; under López Rega's influence, Isabel Perón also favored the right wing, and were thought of by the left as the entorno.

The 2006 capture in Spain of Triple A death-squad overseer Rodolfo Almirón ( then also in charge of López Rega's and Isabel Perón's personal security ) shed further light on the extent of Triple A involvement.

Francisco Antonio García López ( 1943 – 1995 ), also known as Toño Bicicleta ( or Tony Bicycle in English ), was a Puerto Rican criminal famous for escaping from jail several times.

López also alternated as artist on the Ernie Pike series with Hugo Pratt, Jorge Moliterni and José Muñoz.

This not only rendered any possibility of truce or peace nearly impossible but also stipulated that the war was to continue until the current government ceased to be, which meant the death of López.

In 1886 he again assumed the presidency ; his successor, the undistinguished Hermógenes López, was also understood to be under his influence.

El Eternauta is a science fiction comic created by Argentine comic strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld with artwork by Francisco Solano López.

From 1937, at the age of 15, Lusinchi vinculated to the National Democratic Party, organization created by Rómulo Betancourt against the government of Eleazar López Contreras.

Apart from its own army the government could rely on the Voluntary Corps which had been created a few years earlier to face the announced invasion by Narcisco López and which became notorious for its barbaric and bloody acts.

This same year López traveled to the city of Valledupar after being appointed by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo as the first governor of Cesar Department, a newly created province in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia.

* El Belén ( The Nativity Scene ): created between 1780 and 1800, it was begun by Salzillo and extended by his disciple Roque López.

Several days later Austin marched his newly created Texian Army towards San Antonio de Béxar, where General Martín Perfecto de Cos, brother-in-law of Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna, oversaw the garrison at the Alamo.