He served as a member of the cabinets of presidents Luis Echeverría as Secretary of Labor ( 1972 – 1975 ); and José López Portillo as Secretary of Education ( 1976 – 1977 ).

Alvaro del Portillo was the closest collaborator of St. Josemaria Escriva in the government of Opus Dei and became his first successor after Escriva died in 1975.

Portillo was criticized during the campaign for his relationship with the FRG's chairman, former president Ríos Montt.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

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.

" 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.

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.

Pedro Zamora ( left ) with Alonso R. del Portillo in 1993.

Clinton, along with a Zamora family friend named Alonso R. del Portillo, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, reached an agreement with Cuba that would admit 20, 000 Cubans per year.

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.

An early brush with fame came in 1961 at the age of 8, when Portillo starred in a television advertisement for Ribena, a blackcurrant cordial drink.

Many urged Portillo to run against Major, and he set up a potential campaign headquarters with banks of telephone lines.

") Portillo himself commented, thirteen years later, that as a consequence " My name is now synonymous with eating a bucketload of shit in public.

In an interview with The Times given in the summer of 1999, Portillo admitted that " I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

Since 2003, Portillo has appeared in the BBC weekly political discussion programme This Week with Andrew Neil and, until September 2010, Labour MP Diane Abbott.

She played Lady Macduff to his Macduff The chemistry between Portillo and Abbott has been credited with ensuring the programme's popularity.

Since 2002, he has presented his own discussion series, " Dinner with Portillo ", on BBC Four, in which political and social questions are explored by Portillo and his seven guests, over a four-course meal.

Filmed in 2009 but first broadcast 4 January 2010, Portillo presented Great British Railway Journeys in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1840 railway guidebook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain.

The modern period of in Honduran theater began with Luis Andrés Zúñiga Portillo when he wrote " Los Conspiradores " ( The Conspirators, 1916 ), a historic drama that honored the virtues of Francisco Morazán.

Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside such future-names as Nigel Sheinwald ( now, as Sir Nigel, British ambassador to Washington ), Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society.

* http :// www. ushmm. org / museum / exhibit / focus / antisemitism / voices / transcript /? content = 20100701 " Voices on Antisemitism " Interview with Diego Portillo Mazal

Following the rioting, the Constitutional Court, packed with allies of Ríos Montt and Portillo, overturned the Supreme Court decision.

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.

* Electoral history of Michael Portillo

In 1997, Michael Portillo, who succeeded Sir Anthony, lost the seat to Stephen Twigg, who after two terms lost in his turn to David Burrowes in May 2005.

* 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.

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.

" A few weeks after he had given this interview, the death of Alan Clark gave Portillo the opportunity to return to Parliament, despite Lord Tebbit accusing Portillo of lying about the extent of his sexual " deviance ".

He was president after López Portillo.

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.

In the 2001 leadership election, Ruffley initially supported Michael Portillo, and publicly declared support for his former boss Ken Clarke after Portillo was knocked out in the final MPs ' ballot.

* Francis Maude, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, had been popular with the liberal wing of the party, but after his ally Portillo returned to Parliament the lead shifted.

Morientes eventually fell down the pecking order of strikers to Guti and Javier Portillo and, during a February 2003 home win against Borussia Dortmund – 2 – 1 in the Champions League second group stage – was involved in a highly publicised spat with club manager Vicente del Bosque, with the player allegedly insulting the coach after being called to enter the pitch as a third replacement in the dying minutes.

In 2010 – 11, Portillo returned to reserve status, after Hércules signed David Trezeguet and Nelson Valdez in the off-season.

During one year ( shortly after his arrival at the Real Madrid senior setup ), Portillo played ten times for Spain U-21's, scoring five goals.

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.

As a safe Conservative seat in London there was much speculation that former Defence Secretary and widely-predicted future Conservative leader Michael Portillo would seek to return to the Commons after losing the Enfield Southgate constituency in the 1997 election.

In Episode 4, Cooley was disqualified from the show after assaulting Veronica Portillo.

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.

Starting 14 October 2010, Clarke has occasionally joined Michael Portillo on the sofa at This Week as the guest political pundit following the departure of Diane Abbott to take up her post as Shadow Minister for Public Health.

In 1989 Portillo returned to Guatemala and joined the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ), which had replaced the Authentic Revolutionary Party the previous year.