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...Orbia’s billionaire patriarch, 82-year-old Antonio del Valle, made his name in banking before president José López Portillo nationalised the sector in 1982....
...Mexico’s former president José López Portillo, an economic nationalist who governed in the late 1970s, used to boast: “Countries can be divided into those who have oil and those who don’t. We do”....
...The incoming government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador says it wants to talk to banks before making changes — which seems a more market-friendly approach than under president José López Portillo, who nationalised...
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...The head of Pemex, the state oil company, ordered the sale of complete tanker loads of crude oil on the Rotterdam spot market to fill the personal coffers of the nation’s president, José López Portillo....
...Jose Lopez de Portillo, President of Mexico, 1981. “There is no question about restructuring of the debt”. Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Union, 2010. Yes, well . . ....
...“Depressingly, the signs are that he is to be unleashed again as the Tories cry tally-ho against the new treaty,” Mr Portillo said last month....
...And José Figueres, president from 1994 to 1998, was forced to resign as chairman of the World Economic Forum last month, after failing to disclose $906,000 in consultancy income....
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