Óscar Mendoza Azurdia

Óscar Mendoza Azurdia (born June 4, 1917 - January 9, 1985 ) was chairman of a government junta in Guatemala from October 24 to 26, 1957 .

Life

At 3:00 a.m. on October 24, 1957, the army entered the Palacio Nacional , the official residence of the President, and replaced President Luis Arturo González López with a triumvirate of Colonel Óscar Mendoza Azurdia, Colonel Roberto Lorenzana and Colonel Gonzalo Yurrita Nova .

In the afternoon, Parliament sent a delegation to discuss a plan with US Ambassador Edward J. Sparks to replace González with Colonel Guillermo Flores Avendaño . The triumvirate handed over the presidency to Colonel Guillermo Flores Avendaño on October 27, 1957 , as this was the second deputy of Carlos Castillo Armas and the first deputy Luis Arturo González López was murdered on October 25, 1957 under their responsibility.

From November 1957 to March 1958, the Coronel de Infantería Óscar Mendoza Azurdia headed the Escuela Politecnica de Guatemala , as the military academy was called.

Deputy of Romeo Lucas García

From September 12, 1980 to March 1982, he was the deputy to President Fernando Romeo Lucas García .

Mendoza replaced Francisco Villagrán Kramer , who no longer wanted to answer for Fernando Romeo Lucas García's human rights violations and resigned. The García government was responsible for the massacre in the Spanish embassy on January 31, 1980.

At the end of 1981, the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC) were introduced under the García government .

Individual evidence

^ John D. Martz: Central America. The Crisis and the Challenge. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
↑ "Fighter's End" , Time , August 5th 1957th
^ Stephen M. Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954-1961 , Ohio University Press, 2000, 384 p. 66
↑ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights OAS, The resignation of the Vice President, addressed to the Congress of the Republic on September 1, 1980, points up the repeated violations of human rights and the Guatemalan Government's responsibility for those violations.

predecessor	Office	successor
Luis Arturo González López	President of Guatemala October 24-26, 1957	Guillermo Flores Avendaño

personal data
SURNAME	Mendoza Azurdia, Óscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Guatemalan President
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1917
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1985

[MARTZ-1] John D. Martz: Central America. The Crisis and the Challenge. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

[tm19570805-2] "Fighter's End" , Time , August 5th 1957th

[Streeter-3] Stephen M. Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954-1961 , Ohio University Press, 2000, 384 p. 66

[cidh-4] Inter-American Commission on Human Rights OAS, The resignation of the Vice President, addressed to the Congress of the Republic on September 1, 1980, points up the repeated violations of human rights and the Guatemalan Government's responsibility for those violations.