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Álvaro Magaña

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Álvaro Magaña
Magaña in c. 1982–1984
73rd President of El Salvador
In office
2 May 1982 – 1 June 1984
Vice PresidentRaúl Molina Martínez
Mauricio Gutiérrez Castro
Pablo Mauricio Alvergue
Preceded byRevolutionary Government Junta
Carlos Humberto Romero as President
Succeeded byJosé Napoleón Duarte
Personal details
Born
Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja

(1925-10-08)8 October 1925
Ahuachapán, El Salvador
Died10 July 2001(2001-07-10) (aged 75)
San Salvador, El Salvador
Political partyIndependent
SpouseConcha Marina de Magaña

Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (8 October 1925 – 10 July 2001) was a Salvadoran lawyer, economist and politician who was the president of El Salvador from 1982 to 1984.

Biography

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He was born in Ahuachapán, El Salvador, and received his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1952. He was president of the largest mortgage bank of El Salvador (Banco Hipotecario) before the 1982 election. He was sworn in by the President of the Constituent Assembly Roberto D'Aubuisson.[citation needed]

His inauguration as president on May 2, 1982, marked the beginning of elected government in El Salvador after the junta of 1979–1982.[citation needed]

In 1982, the Salvadoran political parties decided that it was time to move on from the rule of the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) and decided to install Magaña as head of state.[citation needed]

Soon afterward, both political parties met at Magaña's farm in Apaneca and decided that under Magaña's provisional government, both parties would share in the ministerial posts.[1]

José Napoleón Duarte willingly relinquished his power as head of state and head of the Junta to Magaña briefly and instead focused on building up his own Christian Democratic Party with the help of the United States and planned to take back power in the 1984 elections.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Stanley, 232
  2. ^ Stanley, 233
  3. ^ Stanley, William (1996). The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 218, 232, 236. ISBN 1566393922.
Political offices
Preceded by President of El Salvador
1982–1984
Succeeded by