Edgardo Mercado Jarrín

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Edgardo Mercado Jarrín (1973)

Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín (born September 19, 1919 in Barranco , Lima , † June 18, 2012 in Lima) was a Peruvian major general and politician who served as foreign minister during the revolutionary government of President Juan Velasco Alvarado between 1968 and 1971 and from 1973 to 1975 Was Prime Minister of Peru .

Life

After visiting the Colegio Nacional in Tacna , he joined the armed forces as a soldier in March 1936 and completed his officer training at the Escuela Militar de Chorrillos . On February 1, 1940 he was promoted to sub-lieutenant in the artillery , before he himself became an instructor at the Escuela Militar de Chorrillos after his promotion to lieutenant in 1943 .

In 1946 he was promoted to captain adjutant to President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and held this position until 1948. He then became an instructor at the Army Artillery School ( Escuela de Artillería del Ejército Peruano ), where he was promoted to major in 1951 and professor of general military tactics appointed. In 1955 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed head of the department for research and development at the Supreme War School ( Escuela Superior de Guerra ) and subsequently head of the Mariscal Mar artillery group No. 6 .

After his promotion to colonel , he was first head of the intelligence department and then chief of staff of the First Light Division in 1960 . In 1963 he moved to the Center for Applied Military Studies ( Centro de Altos Estudios Militares , CAEM), where he founded the Military Strategy Course as Professor of National Strategy .

In 1966 Mercado Jarrín became Brigadier General and as such first director of communications at the Army Academy ( Escuela Mayor del Ejército ) and then commander of the Center for Military Training ( Centro de Instrucción Militar del Perú ), to which the Escuela Militar de Chorrillos (EMCH), Escuela Técnica del Ejercito and other military schools belonged. In addition, he taught as a professor of communications and national strategy at the Research School ( Escuela de Investigaciones ).

After the military coup of October 2, 1968, which brought General Juan Velasco Alvarado to power as president of a revolutionary government, Mercado Jarrín became Peru’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 3, 1968 and held this position until December 31, 1971. On January 1st, 1972, Major General Miguel Ángel de la Flor followed him as Foreign Minister, while he himself became Major General of the Army ( Ejército del Peru ) on February 1, 1972 as Major General .

During this time he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique on January 5, 1969 .

A year later, on February 1, 1973, he succeeded Ernesto Montagne Sánchez as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) and Minister of War. He held these two offices until his replacement by Francisco Morales Bermúdez on February 1, 1975.

He then retired and in the following years dealt with foreign and defense policy issues and also wrote non-fiction books .

Publications

  • El Perú y su política exterior (1971)
  • Seguridad, política, estrategia (1974)
  • Ensayos (1974)
  • Un sistema de seguridad y defensa sudamericano (1989)
  • Consecuencias y enseñanzas de la guerra del Golfo Pérsico (1991)
  • Perú: perspectivas geopolíticas (1993)
  • La geopolítica en el tercer milenio (1995)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ Prime Ministers (Presidents of the Council of Ministers) (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Mercado Jarrín, Edgardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercado Jarrín, Luis Edgardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian politician and major general
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Barranco , Lima
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2012
Place of death Lima