Alfonso Quiñónez Molina

Alfonso Quiñones Molina

Alfonso Quiñónez Molina also Quiñónes (born January 11, 1874 in Suchitoto , † May 22, 1950 in San Salvador ) was three times President of El Salvador .

Life

His parents were Aurelia Molina and Lucio Quiñones. Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was a member of the liberal Partido Democratico. He married Leonor Meléndez, the sister of Jorge Meléndez . Her daughter was Mercedes Quiñonez Meléndez. He was a professor of hygiene and medicine at the Universidad de El Salvador . He was the third successor in the management committee of psychiatry . Replacement council of the medical faculty and later second spokesman for the management committee of the department for the prevention of venereal diseases . He headed the Sara Psychiatry and Asylum, where he did a lot of good. From December 25, 1909 to January 3, 1910, the Fernando Figueroa government sent him as a delegate to the Cuarta Conferencia Sanitaria Internacional de las Repúblicas Americanas in San José.

He defended the interests of the coffee oligarchy . On March 4, 1914, he was proclaimed President by Parliament. Which continued the Meléndez-Quinoñez dynasty (1914 to 1927).

In May 1915 Quinóñes was at a Pan American Union conference in Washington and was interviewed by Woodrow Wilson on a warning note to William II .

During the presidencies of his brother-in-law Carlos Meléndez (1913–1914; 1915–1918) and his brother Jorge Meléndez (1919–1923) Quinónez was deputy. As such, he was temporarily acting president during the 1914 and 1918 election campaigns.

In 1918 Quiñones founded the Liga Roja as a link between the bourgeois government and the workers. It is seen in part as the prototype of a popular-militant state party.

Formally, the form of government of El Salvador under his government from 1923 to 1927 was a democracy. The political work of the opposition was effectively prevented by repressive means. As a popular measure, in May 1926 he decreed a reduction in rent for apartments and allowed social housing cooperatives .

Shortly before the end of his term of office, he appointed his previous deputy Pío Romero Bosque as president. The practice of presidents appointing their successors had a long tradition in El Salvador. So they respected the re-election ban and secured goodwill in the government. On March 1, 1927 Quiñónez gave his office to Pío Romero Bosque. Pío Romero Bosque did not belong to the Agujero de oro , the Melendez dynasty believed they had installed a willing puppet .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Delegates from Salvador Here, Alfonso Quinoñes. Vice president . (PDF) In: The New-York Times , May 2, 1915
2. ↑ Minister Applaud Wilson Document . In: The New-York Times , May 15, 1915, Alfonso Quinones, Admonishing-note (PDF)

predecessor	Office	successor
Carlos Meléndez Carlos Meléndez Jorge Meléndez	President of El Salvador August 29, 1914 - February 28, 1915 December 21, 1918 - March 1, 1919 March 1, 1923 - March 1, 1927	Carlos Meléndez Jorge Meléndez Pío Romero Bosque