Alfonso Bauer Paiz

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Alfonso Bauer Paiz (born April 29, 1918 in Guatemala City ; † July 10, 2011 there ) was a Guatemalan lawyer and politician .

Life

Alfonso Bauer Paiz was the son of Abigail Paiz and Carlos Bauer Avilés (1890-1942), a journalist from El Salvador with German roots. He studied law , presented his work Hacia una Ética valorativa at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1942 and was admitted to the bar in 1944. In the cabinet of Juan José Arévalo he was Minister of Economic Affairs and Labor.

The government of Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán issued decree 900/1952 on June 17, 1952, with which they decreed a land reform and founded the Banco Nacional Agrario (now Banrural). For the distributive land reform should also plots the United Fruit be expropriated and the previous owners according to the taxed value by the Banco Nacional Agrario compensated are. Alfonso Bauer Paiz headed the Banco Nacional Agrario . The Eisenhower cabinet demonstrated its idea of investment protection with Operation PBSUCCESS .

Farmer Paiz went into exile in Mexico in 1954 . In 1957 he returned undocumented to Guatemala, obtained an injunction against his arrest warrant from the Corte Suprema de Justicia de Guatemala , and practiced his profession as a lawyer and lecturer in law at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. On November 30, 1970, he was critically injured by a stranger with five projectiles from a firearm, after which he spent five months in the social security hospital. In May 1971 he went to Santiago de Chile during the government of Salvador Allende . After the coup in Chile in 1973 , he went into exile in Havana , after July 19, 1979, to Managua , where he was an advisor to the respective governments.

In 2003 the documentary Testamento by Uli Stelzner and Thomas Walther was released, which had great success in Guatemalan cinemas.

Fonts (selection)

  • Destellos y sombras en la historia patria. Editorial Escolar “Piedra Santa”, Guatemala 1966.
  • Escritos de un militante de la revolución del 20 de Octubre de 1944. Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala 1994.

Autobiography:

  • Memorias de Alfonso Bauer Paiz. Historia no oficial de Guatemala. Rusticatio Ediciones, Guatemala 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diccionario Histórico Biográfico de Guatemala. In: fundacionhcg.org. 2004, Retrieved August 12, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Alexánder Sequén-Mónchez: Alfonso Bauer Paiz, ética y política . In: El País . July 21, 2011, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com ).
  3. ↑ Muere Alfonso Bauer Paiz, el último revolucionario ( Memento of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: El Periódico , July 11, 2011 [accessed on August 12, 2019, Spanish].
  4. ↑ Testament. In: kino-zeit.de. www.kino-zeit.de, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Testament (Uli Stelzner, Thomas Walther). In: getidan.de. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Farmer Paiz, Alfonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponchito; Don poncho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala City
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2011
Place of death Guatemala City