Jesús Reyes Heroles (3 April 1921 – 19 March 1985) was a Mexican politician, jurist, historian and academic affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The party acknowledges him as one of its leading ideologues.[1]
Professional career
editReyes Heroles was born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, in 1921. In 1939 he gained admission to the law school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and joined the Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM), the forerunner of the later PRI. He graduated from the UNAM in 1944 and pursued studies in Argentina the following year.[2] Between 1946 and 1963 he taught at both the UNAM and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).[3]
In the 1961 mid-term election, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Veracruz's second district.[4] At the end of his term in Congress he was appointed director-general of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), where he remained throughout the presidential term of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964–1970). During his time at PEMEX he oversaw the creation of the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP).[2]
He was president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party from 1972 to 1975 and director-general of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) from 1975 to 1976.[2]
In 1976, newly elected president José López Portillo appointed him Secretary of the Interior. He served in that position until 1979, during which time he oversaw the 1977 electoral reforms and the adoption of the Federal Law on Political Organizations and Electoral Procedures (LFOPPE). Under this law the number of federal deputies was increased, a parallel voting system was introduced, and opposition parties were allowed to register and contend in elections on a much fairer footing than what had previously been the case.[3][5]
Under Miguel de la Madrid, López Portillo's successor, Reyes Heroles served as Secretary of Public Education from 1982 to 1985.[2]
Jesús Reyes Heroles died on 19 March 1985 in Denver, United States, where he had gone to seek medical treatment for lung cancer.[6]
Personal life
editReyes Heroles was the father of Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles (1952–2024),[7] director-general of PEMEX, secretary of energy and ambassador to the United States, and of Federico Jesús Reyes Heroles (born 1955),[8] a noted writer and political commentator.
References
edit- ^ "Reyes Heroles presente en la transformación de México". pri.org.mx. Institutional Revolutionary Party. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Jesús Reyes Heroles" (in Spanish). Instituto Reyes Heroles. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Jesús Reyes Heroles, impulsor de la democracia en México" (in Spanish). National Human Rights Commission. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Legislatura 45" (PDF) (in Spanish). Chamber of Deputies. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "La reforma política de 1977" (in Spanish). Chamber of Deputies. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Espinosa Benavides, Leopoldo (19 March 2018). "Marzo 19 de 1985: muere en Denver, Colorado, Jesús Reyes Heroles, siendo secretario de educación pública". El Regio (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Ramos, Rolando (21 January 2024). "¿Quién fue Jesús Reyes-Heroles González-Garza?". El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Orfandad. El padre y el político. Federico Reyes Heroles". Enciclopedia de la Literatura Mexicana (in Spanish). Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas. Retrieved 1 August 2024.