Luis Javier Garrido

Luis Javier Garrido Platas (1941 – February 2, 2012) was a Mexican political analyst, researcher, writer and academic.^[1][2]

Garrido was born in Mexico City in 1941.^[1] His father, Luis Garrido Díaz, served as the rector of National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1948 to 1952 and again from 1952 to 1953.^[2] A political analyst and professor, Garrido taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. One of his best known books, El Partido de la revolución Institucionalizada, was first published in 1982.^[2]

Garrido died on February 2, 2012, at the age of 71.^[1][2]