Carlos Tello Macías

Carlos Alejandro Tello Macías (4 November 1938 – 30 July 2024) was a Mexican socialist-oriented economist, academic, and diplomat. He was an ambassador to Cuba and the Soviet Union, the director-general of the central bank, and the (1976–77) in the cabinet of President José López Portillo.

Biography Tello Macías was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his parents, Manuel Tello Baurraud and Guadalupe Macías Viadero, were serving as Mexican diplomats.

Tello joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1976. In 1975–76 he was an undersecretary at the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP). In 1976, President López Portillo appointed him to head the newly created ; he remained in that position until he was forced to resign following a long and bitter dispute with the Secretary of Finance, Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma. In September 1982, López Portillo appointed him director-general of the Bank of Mexico, where he played a key role in the controversial announced by the president in the final months of his term.

Personal life Tello Macías was the son of Manuel Tello Baurraud (1898–1971), who was twice secretary of foreign affairs. His brother, Manuel Tello Macías, also served as foreign secretary. He had three children, among them, historian , author of .

Selected works Tello Macías published more than 20 books, including: ("Letters from Moscow", 1994) ("State and Economic Development: Mexico 1920–2006", 2008) ("The Nationalization of the Mexican Banking System", 1984)