Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn

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Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn (* 1919 in Jamadoba , † 1981 in Entrecasteaux ) was a Guatemalan ambassador .

Life

Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn's father was born in Scotland . McGarvie-Munn was captain of the Seaforth Highlanders . In 1947 he married Carmen Atala Ydígoras Laparra, the daughter of María Laparra Samajoa and José Miguel Ramón Idígoras Fuentes .

In June 1954, an opposition in San Salvador selected by John Emil Peurifoy agreed to transfer from the government of Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán to a junta in the Pacto de San Salvador during Operation PBSUCCESS . Idígoras Fuentes recognized the lack of unity among the signatories of the Pacto de San Salvador and had Peurifoy inform via McGarvie-Munn that he would let himself participate in power under a gentlemen's agreement . Peurifoy interpreted the attitude of Idígoras Fuentes as a rejection of the Pacto de San Salvador .

On March 2, 1958, Idígoras Fuentes, the father-in-law of Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn, became President of Guatemala. As a painter, McGarvie-Munn was a member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, an association of shipbuilding designers, and Idígoras Fuentes founded the Guatemalan Navy .

Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn bought the listed castle of Entrecasteaux in 1974 to house his family and had it renovated into a museum .

Individual evidence

  1. Roland H. Ebel, Misunderstood caudillo: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes and the failure of democracy in Guatemala , University Press of America, 1998 - 343 pp, p. 41
predecessor Office successor
Colonel Luís Urrutia de León Guatemalan Ambassador to Paris
1961–1966
Miguel Ángel Asturias