MEXICO CITY — Former President Jose Lopez Portillo, who led a free-spending, corruption-ridden oil boom only to watch its collapse plunge Mexico into one of its worst financial crises, died Tuesday ...

Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, famous for swearing to defend the peso "like a dog" shortly before devaluing, died on Tuesday from complications from a pneumonia contracted earlier in ...

Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, famous for swearing to defend the peso “like a dog” just months before it was devalued, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia contracted earlier in ...

Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, famous for swearing to defend the peso "like a dog" shortly before devaluing, died on Tuesday from complications from a pneumonia contracted earlier in ...

IN THE early 1970s, extraordinary new discoveries of oil began to be made in south-eastern Mexico. It was found bubbling through a marsh near Villahermosa and leaking into the sea near Ciudad del ...

Former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo was flown Thursday to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston where he is expected to undergo heart surgery today. Lopez Portillo's personal doctor said ...

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Jose Lopez Portillo, who died on Tuesday aged 83, was President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982, when he became reviled for having squandered his country's oil windfall in a binge of borrowing and ...

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Medical officials said Wednesday that Jose Lopez Portillo, president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982, died while undergoing treatment for pneumonia. He was 83. Lopez Portillo ...