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Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo.
Portillo carried all 22 departments and Guatemala City, which was considered the PAN's stronghold.
Portillo was criticized during the campaign for his relationship with the FRG's chairman, former president Ríos Montt.
" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.
The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.
Segovia's first wife was Adelaida Portillo ( marriage in 1918 ).
* 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.
His death in office triggered a by-election in Enfield Southgate, which was won by Michael Portillo.
It was soon backed by International Ski Federation ( FIS ) president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.
Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984 ; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Eurosceptic, Portillo served as a junior minister under both Thatcher and John Major, before entering the cabinet in 1992.
Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.
His father was an exiled Spanish republican, Luis Gabriel Portillo ( 1907 – 1993 ).
Commentators suggested this was an example of Portillo taking the initiative in terms of Conservative Party policy and was the first step towards increasing acrimony between Hague and his Shadow Chancellor.
When Duncan Smith was elected leader, Portillo returned to the backbenches.
Later, whilst still at school, Portillo cast Abbott in a film version of Macbeth, but the film was never completed.
Portillo was the Chairman of the committee choosing the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Portillo has written a regular column for The Sunday Times, contributes to other journals ( he was a theatre critic for the New Statesman until May 2006 ), and is a regular radio broadcaster in the UK.
On 4 July 2011 it was announced that Portillo will chair a new £ 55m Arts Endowment Fund, to be supported by the Arts Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
After his time at Oxford, Perkins joined the Ocean Transport and Trading Company "( in the same intake as his confrère Portillo ), Perkins was put to work studying waste timber in Liverpool.
The event was commemorated by the Portillo de la Traición ( Treason Gate ).
Alfonso Portillo was named to replace him as the FRG candidate, and narrowly lost.
As he was then a Cabinet Minister, Michael Portillo's constituency of Enfield Southgate was believed to be a safe seat but opinion polls showed the Labour candidate Stephen Twigg steadily gaining support, which may have prompted undecided voters or supporters of other parties to support Twigg in order to remove Portillo.

Portillo and accused
His opponents internationally and domestically accused López Portillo of " rampant corruption ," " excessive overseas borrowing ," galloping inflation ( which continued with his successor ), and responsibility for devaluations of the peso.
He is accused of irresponsible government spending, increasing inflation, and cronyism – which is symbolized by appointing his good friend and eventual successor José López Portillo as Finance Minister – violent devaluations of the peso, from 12. 50 MXP per dollar in 1954 to 20 per dollar in late 1976, as well as for rising debt.
In April 1995 Portillo, along with another seven of the DCG's 13 deputies, left the party to become independents after the parliamentary group was accused of corruption.

Portillo and 15
Santiago González Portillo ( 1818 – 1887 ) was President of El Salvador 15 April 1871-1 February 1876.

Portillo and Guatemalan
The same August President Portillo admitted involvement of the Guatemalan government in human rights abuses over the previous 20 years, including for two massacres that took place during Ríos Montt's presidency.
He won the first round in November, and then narrowly beat Alfonso Portillo of the Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG, Frente Republicano Guatemalteco ) in the second round in January 1996, gaining 51. 2 percent of the vote.
Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera ( born 24 September 1951 ) is a Guatemalan politician.
Portillo and his associates were absolved of all embezzlement charges on May 9, 2011 by a Guatemalan court that determined that prosecutors, Guatemala's Public Ministry, did not present sufficient evidence to convict the former president.

Portillo and defense
Portillo also promised to continue the peace process, appoint a civilian defense minister, reform the armed forces, replace the military presidential security service with a civilian one, and strengthen protection of human rights.
" ( del Portillo 1996, p. 22-25 ) Various Jewish officials, Opus Dei supporters say, also came out publicly to Escrivá's defense.

Portillo and where
First, they were able to actually reach the narrow valley that Parrado had seen on the top of the mountain, where they found the bed of Rio San Jose, leading to Rio Portillo which meets Rio Azufre at Maitenes.
The Eltham Conservative Association became the first in London to select a candidate, David Gold, by means of an open primary election where any voter on the electoral roll was entitled to attend and vote at a meeting chaired by Michael Portillo on 31 July 2006 at the Bob Hope Theatre.
Owner and founder Dick Portillo worked at Tom's Weenie Wagon, where he learned how to make the hot dog that made him.
He received a bachelor, master and doctorate's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ), where he also taught several courses for almost 19 years ( 1954 – 1973 ) before heading the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the López Portillo administration.

Portillo and authorities
On 26 January 2010, Portillo was apprehended by local authorities in Guatemala near Punta de Palma.

Portillo and believe
Portillo unexpectedly lost his Enfield Southgate seat at the 1997 general election ; political commentators widely believe that he would have been elected Conservative leader had he retained it.

Portillo and most
* GUNSON, P. José López Portillo: Mexico's most reviled president, The Guardian, February 20, 2004.
For many, Portillo ( widely tipped to be the next Tory leader ) losing his seat was the most iconic moment of the election ; a book of the election by Brian Cathcart was titled Were You Still Up for Portillo?
There was immediate speculation that Michael Portillo, the most high-profile casualty of the 1997 general election, would use it to return to frontline politics.
However, as the Tories had denied responsibility for the recession at the turn of the decade, few voters were willing to give them credit for the economic recovery, and Labour returned to power after 18 years with a 179-seat majority that saw several leading Tory MP's ( most notably Michael Portillo, widely tipped to be the next Tory leader ) lose their seats and leave them without any MP's in Wales or Scotland.

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