Alfonso García Robles belongs to the political record as a figure whose decisions outlasted the moment that produced them.
The record lists Alfonso García Robles as Mexican diplomat and politician (1911-1991).
Alfonso García Robles was born at Zamora de Hidalgo in 1911. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He was educated at National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, mass movements, total war and the collapse of empires reshaped what a political career could be.
The record of office reads: ambassador and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
He is described as diplomat, writer and lawyer.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Recognition followed: Nobel Peace Prize (1982) and Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru.
That the career was made in Mexico is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Alfonso García Robles died in 1991, aged 80. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- ambassador
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
- Nobel Peace Prize — 1982
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- Educated at National Autonomous University of Mexico
