Raúl Salinas Lozano (born Agualeguas, Nuevo León; 1 May 1917 – 23 February 2004) was a Mexican economist. He was a former Secretary of Agriculture, Mexican Ambassador to the Soviet Union and father of former president

Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexicans, Mexican economist, historían and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Considered the frontman of Mexican Neoliberalism by formulating, p ...

of the

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(PRI). He served as economics minister under

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 ...

. Lozano studied economics at both the

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and

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, where he earned as master's degree. He returned to Mexico and taught at universities and served in a series of government positions. Lozano was married to Margarita de Gortari Carvajal, with whom he had five children. Lozano's older son,

Raúl Salinas de Gortari Raúl Salinas de Gortari (born August 24, 1946) is a Mexican civil engineer and businessman. He is the elder brother of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the 53rd president of Mexico. Raúl Salinas de Gortari graduated from the Faculty of Engineerin ...

, was convicted of the murder of his sister Adriana's husband

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in 1999, although the sentence was overturned in June 2005. Lozano died of pneumonia at age 86.

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Secretaries of economy of Mexico Mexican economists Presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Ambassadors of Mexico to the Soviet Union Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 1917 births 2004 deaths People from Agualeguas National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni {{Mexico-economist-stub