Alfonso Lovo Cordero

Alfonso Lovo Cordero (1972)

Alfonso Lovo Cordero (born June 11, 1927 in Danlí , El Paraíso Department , Honduras ; † May 10, 2018 ) was Minister of Agriculture in Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and a member of the Junta Nacional de Gobierno from 1972 to 1974 .

Life

Alfonso Lovo Cordero was born in Honduras. This is where his mother, Esperanza Cordero Núñez, fled after the troops of General Augusto César Sandino advanced against the garrison of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua in their home town of Ocotal (see the " Battle of Ocotal "). He came from a family that had produced several officers and politicians, including his uncle José María Moncada Tapia , President of Nicaragua from 1929 to 1932.

Lovo studied at Cornell University in the USA and law at the University of León , where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on social security. However, he never worked as a lawyer, but became an importer for cars and tractors. This lucrative business fell to him after he had joined the Partido Liberal Nacionalista ; since 1956 he was a confidante of the Somoza clan .

In 1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle made him his Minister of Agriculture. Since the constitution did not allow a re-election of Somoza, he formally gave up power on May 1, 1972 and formed a Junta Nacional de Gobierno , a triumvirate consisting of Roberto Martínez Lacayo , Fernando Bernabé Agüero Rocha and Alfonso Lovo Cordero. Under the guise of the junta, the Somoza clan could effectively continue to rule. On December 1, 1974 Somoza took over the presidency again. Lovo was retired and amply rewarded for the services rendered.

When the Sandinista overthrew Somoza in 1979, Lovo followed him into exile, going first to New Orleans , then to Miami . There he founded ALCOR International Consultants in 1980 , which was active in the agricultural and pharmaceutical business. It was later taken over by the peptide manufacturer Demegen, Inc. and Lovo was appointed director by Demegen in 1992.

In 2001 the son of Alfonso Lovo Cordero, Alfonso Lovo Blandón, sued for the clearance of a baseball field that was allegedly owned by his family.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1Ycj2nAWk6sJ:www.informepastran.com/prueba/%3F__hstc%3D6099180.7a43b48361753a522fe15ee280992c93.14725152000__sson%363b48361753a522fe15ee280992c93.14725152000__ssf%363153.147251520009960.147251520001 13 & hl = hr & ct = clnk & gl = hrm ( Memento from May 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ La Prensa , October 4, 2004: "Hermano, se nos fue el viejo". Deslumbrante entierro terminó en un basurero ( Memento of June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 12, 2015.
3. ↑ Clemente Guido Martínez: Historia del poder ejecutivo de Nicaragua, 1527-2007 . Lea Grupo Editorial, 2007, ISBN 978-99924-77-07-6 , pp. 146 and 197.
4. ^ Michael Krennerich: Elections and anti-regime wars in Central America. A comparative study . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1706-X , p. 198.
5. ↑ Company profile of Demegen, Inc., Pittsburgh, from 1999 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 12, 2015.  
6. ↑ Corte Suprema de Justicia, August 14, 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Anastasio Somoza Debayle	President of the Nicaragua Junta with Roberto Martínez Lacayo Fernando Bernabé Agüero Rocha or Edmundo Paguaga Irías May 1, 1972 to December 1, 1974	Anastasio Somoza Debayle