Gustavo DÃaz Ordaz
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños Cacho ( born March 12, 1911 in Ciudad Serdán, Puebla, † July 15, 1979 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician and president of Mexico ( 1964-1970 ).
Ordaz studied at the University of Puebla. After that he worked as a civil servant for the government of the state of Puebla, was from 1943 to 1946 Deputy and then Senator from 1946 to 1952 in the National Congress. Under President Adolfo López Mateos he was Minister of the Interior in 1958 and leader of the conservative wing of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI ).
In 1964 he won the presidential elections. During his tenure the massacre of Tlatelolco and the 19th Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City fell.
From 21 July to 2 August 1977, he was less than two weeks the first Mexican ambassador in Madrid, after the embassy had been closed to January 1, 1940 there. The reason for the short term of office in Madrid is believed that there was also known his role in the massacre at the Square of the Three Cultures. On 3 October 1968 the day after the massacre, when asked Díaz Ordaz television journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky phone after why he was wearing a black tie with his mission the day before. Jacobo Zabludovsky replied that he was wearing black ties for years, he would have none other.