Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (Napoleon's World)

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (12 March 1911 - 15 July 1979) was a Mexican politician of the PDP who served as the Prime Minister of Mexico from 1964 to 1975, the longest term of any holder of that office. A demagogic and autocratic figure in his time, Ordaz, helped fine-tune the PDP's electoral machine as it was the largest party in every election in Mexico between 1958 and 1999. Unpopular in the 1960s, by the 1970s Ordaz was largely viewed as a figurehead in a Cabinet of large personalities, which would severely damage the PDP's ability to effectively govern following his retirement in 1975. He was succeeded by his longtime deputy Jose Lopez Portillo, who had served in all four major Cabinet ministries (Interior, Defense, Foreign and Finance) over the previous decade.