Editing Emilio Portes Gil (section)

==Later life==
He handed on the presidential sash to [[Pascual Ortiz Rubio]] on 5 February 1930, but effective power still remained in the hands of Calles. Portes Gil later served for 18 months as interior minister.<ref name=CasteelC-PG,E-THTA />

He subsequently traveled to Europe as Mexico's first representative to the [[League of Nations]]. Under later presidents, he served in various capacities, including ambassador to India, foreign minister, [[Attorney General of Mexico|attorney-general]], and president of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|Partido Nacional Revolucionario]] (National Revolutionary Party).<ref name=Britannica />

In 1933, [[Lázaro Cárdenas]] was chosen as the party's official candidate for the 1934 presidential elections. Calles attempted to retain his own power as he had endeavored to do throughout the [[Maximato]], but Cárdenas outmaneuvered Calles politically and eventually exiled him from Mexico. Cárdenas put Portes Gil in charge of purging the party of Callista elements. Since Portes Gil was "one of the 'puppet presidents' so unceremoniously dumped by Calles, [Portes Gil] was happy to serve."<ref>Cline, Howard F. ''The United States and Mexico'', Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1961, p. 221.</ref>

Cárdenas reorganized the party as the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (PRM), setting the structural form of sectoral representation that its 1946 successor retained, the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] (PRI). Cárdenas, however, returned Portes Gil to his stronghold in Tamaulipas once the former president had performed his task since the latter had "attempted to build up his own position for a possible political comeback."<ref>Cline, ''United States and Mexico'', p. 221.</ref>

Portes Gil retired from politics in 1936.<ref name=Britannica /> In 1964, he attended the inauguration of President [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Díaz Is Sworn In As Mexico's Head|date=1964-12-02|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/02/archives/diaz-is-sworn-in-as-mexicos-head-stresses-farm-problemsties-to-cuba.html|accessdate=2023-08-28}}</ref> He died of a heart attack in Mexico City in 1978, at the age of 88.<ref name=CasteelC-PG,E-THTA />