RAÚL SALINAS LOZANO: BIOGRAPHY - ARTE - 2025

Raúl Salinas Lozano (1917-2004) was a Mexican economist and politician, graduated from the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), who spent much of his life in different public positions, all of great importance, as a senator for Nuevo León under the government of Adolfo López Mateos, Delegate of the International Monetary Fund, President of the Cooperative Development Bank, President of the National Bank for Foreign Trade, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, among others.

He also served as a professor at UNAM, teaching Economics and Administration, was a lecturer and author of some investigative articles published in important media in Mexico.

Raúl Salinas Lozano. Source: Youtube

In 1990, the University of the Americas awarded him an honorary doctorate for his career. He was the author of several articles in Mexican economic magazines and also recognized for being the father of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Studies

Salinas Lozano began her studies in Economics at UNAM. Later she completed a postgraduate degree at the American University in Washington and a master's degree at Harvard University, in Cambridge.

His time at Harvard was full of satisfaction as he managed to be the highest average of his generation. Passionate about economics, research, and teaching, he was honored to receive from President Eisenhower the command bastion of his generation's marshal.

He also carried out several studies on fiscal policy in European countries such as Sweden, England and the Netherlands, which he would later apply in his country in different positions in banks and finance ministries.

Family

Raúl Salinas married Margarita de Gortari Carvajal, one of the first Mexican economists, a member of institutions such as the Association of Women Economists of Mexico and who accompanied him throughout his life until his death in 1992. He shared his passion with his wife for teaching.

The love for the profession of Salinas and his wife was reflected years later when, when they were older, one of their sons reached the highest office in the nation, the presidency: Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Salinas had five children with Margarita: Adriana, Sergio, Raúl, Enrique and Carlos. He was a calm person who, above all, always sought to spend time with the family.

Professor and researcher

Salinas Lozano combined public administration with teaching and research. As a result of the years dedicated to research on her favorite economic topics, several of the articles were published in specialized magazines such as El Trimestre Económico and Revista de Economía.

He also enjoyed teaching, giving various chairs such as Economic Theory, Development Theory and Political Thought at different universities; the University of San Salvador, UNAM, the Ibero-American University, where he taught Economic Problems, and at the National Institute of Public Administration, where he dictated Economic Development of Mexico.

As a result of his research and work as a professor, in 1990 the University of the Americas awarded him the Doctor honoris causa, a question that affirmed the solidity of so many years dedicated to teaching both in classrooms and in written articles.

These activities, although they served his students and specialists, were far from the many needs of the people, a path that he traveled years later, making the leap from public administration to politics, as a senator.

Professional exercise

Among the most outstanding positions of Salinas Lozano in Mexico are the following: Senator (1982-1988), Ambassador to the USSR, head and director of Economic Studies in the Ministry of Finance, Delegate of Mexico to the International Monetary Fund and the Bank World Development. In 1940 he joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and then chose his presidency but could not obtain it.

He was also an advisor to several public and private institutions and General Director of the Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade between 1980 and 1982. It was common for several Central American universities to call him to give lectures during these years on subjects in which Salinas was a specialist: economics and administration.

In an interview for the program Foro, from Televisa Monterrey, he stated how many people asked him to make the leap from teaching to politics. For him, good politics should lead to making correct decisions that benefit the community in general, Mexicans, the largest number of people.

When it comes to negotiations with companies, they can also benefit the country and families in the long term.

Member of institutions

In his eagerness to solve everyday problems of Mexicans, Raúl Salinas was a member, among others, of institutions such as the League of Revolutionary Economists, of Chilpancingo, created in 1979, an institution that sought to analyze economic and social problems, and propose specific solutions in seminars, congresses and round tables.

Also noteworthy is having been the founder of the Javier Barros Sierra Foundation, created in 1975, oriented from science and technology to the prospect of economic and social development in Mexico.

Sickness and death

Raúl Salinas was widowed a few years before his death. Margarita died in 1992 and Salinas in 2004, at the age of 87. The cause of her death was a complication of an old pulmonary emphysema, which would end up causing pneumonia.

He was able to rest and spend the last moments surrounded by all his relatives, as explained by former President Carlos Salinas to the media a day after his father's death.

Several personalities from Mexican politics came to the family home to express their condolences, including the Governor of the State of Mexico, Arturo Montiel.

Roberto Madrazo, leader of the PRI, party in which Salinas was a member, was present, and who said that he had been a man loyal to his country and therefore regretted his death.

Oil leaders and former government secretaries also spoke out regardless of whether they were from political parties not related to the PRI. The ashes of Raúl Salinas rest next to those of his wife Margarita de Gortari, in the house on Calle Arbol de Fuego, in Coyoacán.

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