President Portillo speaks at the National Press Club

José López Portillo y Pacheco (June 16, 1920 – February 17, 2004) was the 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. He held several positions in the administrations of his two predecessors before being appointed to serve as finance minister under Luis Echeverría, a close friend, from 1973 to 1975. WS in color of US and Mexican officials with Mexico President Jose Portillo and translator at the National Press Club. Portillo speaks about one of the problems which is the result of the general situation that he has explained, as all things, could be dealt with in two ways.