Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Who was Luis Enrique Bracamontes?

Luis Enrique Bracamontes Gálvez was a Mexican engineer and politician.

Luis Enrique Bracamontes Gálvez. Mexican political and Engineer and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Secretary of Public Works under President Luis Echeverria Alvarez.

Luis Enrique Bracamontes was born in Tapalpa, Jalisco on June 22, 1923. Civil Engineer graduated from the National School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering today the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Master in Physics, from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Americas in 1973 and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in 1997.

He served as Project Manager of the City University and then was first Subsecetario of Communications and Public Works from 1952 to 1958 and Secretary of Public Works 1958-1964. As of December 1, 1970 President Luis Echeverria Alvarez desingnó the head of the Ministry of Public Works was also a consulting engineer of several Latin American countries. The last public position that I occupy was Director General of the Mexican Institute of Transport between 1989 and 1994.