Enrique Álvarez Córdoba
Enrique Alvarez Cordoba (* 4. March 1930 in San Salvador ; † 27. November 1980 ) was a Salvadoran coffee growers and reform politicians . As a supporter of land reform , he was Minister of Agriculture several times and was murdered by a right-wing extremist death squad.
Life
Álvarez came from one of the leading landowning families in El Salvador and studied business administration at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. In the 1970s he was deputy minister of agriculture several times and tried to implement land reform in order to fight poverty in the country. In 1979 he became Minister of Agriculture in the First Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno . At the beginning of 1980 he resigned and in April 1980, together with other left-wing politicians, founded the Frente Democrático Revolucionario (FDR) (Democratic Revolutionary Front), which came into opposition to the junta. On November 27, 1980, he was kidnapped and murdered by a death squad during a press conference together with Juan Chacón, Manuel Franco, Humberto Mendoza and Enrique Barrera . He was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of San Salvador .
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Individual evidence
- ^ The New January 9, 1981
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Álvarez Córdoba, Enrique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Salvadoran coffee planter and reform politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Salvador |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1980 |
| Place of death | San Salvador |