Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma Cid (March 24, 1927 – August 4, 2000) was a Mexican lawyer who served as the first Secretary of Finance (1976–77) in the cabinet of President José López Portillo, as director-general of

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(1981–82) and as director-general of the now extinct Somex bank (1982–88). Moctezuma was born in

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into a family composed by Alberto Moctezuma —a farmer— and Alicia Cid. He graduated from the

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(UNAM) with a bachelor's degree Law and married Blanca Rosa Franco. He practiced law in , lectured in Political Science at the National University, held several posts at the extinct Secretariat of the Presidency and worked as an adviser to the National Company for Basic Commodities (Conasupo). When José López Portillo —a close friend of his since the 1950s— assumed the presidency of Mexico, he served briefly as his first Secretary of Finance but was forced to resign on 17 November 1977 after several public policy disagreements with

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, the statist Secretary of Budget and Planning in the federal cabinet. Moctezuma Cid died in

on August 4, 2000, aged 73.

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Mexican Secretaries of Finance National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty 20th-century Mexican lawyers 1927 births 2000 deaths {{Mexico-law-bio-stub