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...land reform, López Portillo is unlikely to reverse expropriations already carried out. But he will move slowly on new ones. "The land is not made of rubber," he has told advisers. "It is not elastic." There will simply not be enough arable soil for everyone. Larger, more efficient holdings, however, may increase, since they are prime earners of U.S. dollars...
Born in 1920 to what he describes as a "typically middle-class family," López Portillo has lived all his life in Mexico City. There, as a student at the University of Mexico, he became a close friend of Echeverria's. After practicing law and lecturing on political science at the university, López Portillo began a series of technical appointive jobs for government ministries in 1958. His briefs laid the legal foundation for President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz's administrative reforms in the 1960s and earned him a reputation as an effective troubleshooter. In that capacity...
Cruel statistics underline López Portillo's toughest job: finding work for the 750,000 workers who enter the job market each year. Though per capita income is more than $1,200 a year, millions live on the fringe of the cash economy. Figures are vague, but estimates of unemployment run upwards of 25%; an equal number scrounge by on occasional day labor. "The best way to distribute the wealth," López Portillo told campaign supporters, "is to create more sources of work." Doing that will be difficult. The investment-public and private -needed just to employ...
...certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws of the country." His suitably vague campaign slogan: "La solución somos todos...
...President's style, though, contrasts sharply with that of his dour, ponderously rhetorical predecessor. Tall, barrel-chested and robustly athletic, López Portillo flashes ear-to-ear grins and laces his refreshingly brief speeches with humor. His inaugural address will probably be the longest oration of his life. He enjoys soccer or boxing as much as talk of public administration, economics or Mexican mythology. His writings include studies of both legal theory and Mexico's legendary god-king Quetzalcoatl...