Héctor Caraccioli Moncada

Héctor Caraccioli Moncada (* 1922 ; † 1975 ) was from October 21, 1956 to December 21, 1957 member of a military junta that served as head of state in Honduras .

Life

Héctor Caraccioli Moncada was the pilot of the Fuerza Aérea Hondureña . His Boeing Model 40 crashed on January 25, 1945, and Caraccioli was the first Honduran Air Force pilot to disembark with an emergency parachute. He replaced Hernán Acosta Mejía as commander of the Fuerza Aérea Hondureña and was replaced by Armando Escalón Espinal as the commander of the Fuerza Aérea Hondureña .

Hector Caraccioli coup itself on 21 October 1956 in a military junta to power. The junta canceled the October 7, 1956 elections for alleged electoral fraud. Young officers trained as part of the United States Military Assistance Program were used as military commanders of the 17 departments . When José Ramón Villeda Morales returned to Honduras from exile, he was immediately sent to Washington as ambassador. On November 2, 1956, the junta abolished the death penalty with Decreto N ° 11 . The explanatory text stated "... the death penalty was introduced conditionally in the 1936 Constitution, and did not produce the expected results, it did not reduce the crime rate of the crimes for which it was intended".

Until July 7, 1957 belonged the military junta Coronel Roque Jacinto Rodriguez Herrera (1898–1981), the director of the Escuela Militar Francisco Morazán and Major Roberto Galvez Barnes (born May 18, 1925 in Puerto Cortés ; † March 19, 1995 in Tegucigalpa ) , Son of Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón , a pioneer who studied at Louisiana State University , Secretary of Development in the Julio Lozano Díaz government .

On August 21, 1957, the election of the delegates to the constituent assembly was called. The election of the delegates to the constituent assembly took place on September 22, 1957. The Partido Liberal de Honduras placed 36 delegates and the Partido Nacional de Honduras 18, the Moviemiento Nacional Reformista four.

From November 17, 1957, Caraccioli ruled with Coronel Oswaldo López Arellano .

Hector Caraccioli Moncada died in an airplane accident.

An air force base near La Ceiba , which opened on October 25, 1978, is named after Hector Caraccioli Moncada . Northrop F-5s are stationed on this and International Military Education and Training (IMET) also takes place there.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Time , October 29, 1956 The Polite Revolution
2. ↑ HE Goemans: ARCHIGOS  ( 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.  
3. ↑ La Tribuna , June 5, 2007, FUERZA AEREA ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2007 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. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón	List of Presidents of Honduras October 21, 1956 to December 21, 1957	José Ramón Villeda Morales