Roberto Suazo Cordova

Roberto Suazo Cordova

Roberto Suazo Córdova (born March 17, 1927 in La Paz , † December 22, 2018 in Tegucigalpa ) was a Honduran politician . From January 27, 1982 to January 27, 1986 he was President of Honduras.

Life

His parents were Matilde Córdova and Julián Suazo. His high school was the Leon Alvarado Institute in Ciudad de Comayagua . In 1949 he completed his human medicine and surgery studies at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala . He practiced as a doctor in Tegucigalpa General Hospital . In 1953 he returned to his hometown and practiced medicine. He married Aida Zacapa. He was a member of the Partido Liberal de Honduras . He became a delegate for the La Paz Department in the Constituent Assembly from 1957 to 1963.

From 1965 to 1971 he was a member of parliament for La Paz. He was chairman of the Partido Liberal de Honduras . From 1980 to 1981 he was delegate and chairman of the constituent assembly.

In the general election on November 29, 1981, he was presidential candidate of the Partido Liberal de Honduras . The candidate of the Partido Nacional de Honduras was Ricardo Zuñiga Agustinus. Roberto Suazo Córdova received 53% of the vote.

Suazo died on December 22, 2018 at 5:30 a.m. in the military hospital 5 km south of the capital Tegucigalpa.

Presidency

Policarpio Juan Paz García had appointed Colonel Gustavo Adolfo Álvarez Martínez to head the Fuerza de Seguridad Publica (FUSEP). When Suazo took office, Álvarez became commander in chief of the Honduran army . Álvarez expressed concern to US - Ambassador Jack Robert Binns that "extrajudicial methods are likely to be necessary in order to take care of the subversives." Álvarez praised the Argentine method , which Binns interpreted as Operation Condor . Álvarez was from January 1982 to March 31, 1984 Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Honduras. In March 1984 Gustavo Adolfo Álvarez Martínez was replaced by Diplomado de Estado Mayor Aereo (DEMA) Walter López Reyes from the Fuerza Aérea Hondureña , as Honduras had gained international attention as a contra base.

The state of Honduras is protected from external enemies by the USA. That is why military and police tasks were indistinguishably directed towards internal enemies of the system. In Ronald Reagan's geostrategic conception , Honduras was an unsinkable aircraft carrier in an otherwise hostile world. For Roberto Suazo Cordova's presidency, this meant extensive military and economic aid from the US government.

In 1983, Padre Guadalupe Carney disappeared , he was one of the 184 people who disappeared in Honduras from 1980 to 1984 .

In 1983, the government under Ronald Reagan initiated the Caribbean Basin Initiative to economically upgrade the US backyard . The scheduled tariff reductions were accompanied by economic aid. A total of USD 350 million in economic aid was distributed in the region, of which the Honduran state received USD 35 million.

In 1985 the El Cajón dam was completed.

Government cabinet

• Deputy: Céleo Arias Moncada, Marcelino Ponce Martínez, Arturo Rendón Pineda
• Ministers of Justice Administration and Government Ministers: Oscar Mejía Arellano, Arnulfo Pineda López
• Presidential Minister: Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé
• Foreign Minister: Edgardo Paz Barnica
• Minister of Natural Resources: Miguel Ángel Bonilla Reyes
• Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare: Gonzalo Rodríguez Soto
• Economy Minister: Gustavo Alfaro
• Minister of Communication, Transport and Public Works: José Simón Azcona, Carlos Handal
• Minister of Public Education: Alma Rodas de Fiallos
• Minister of Labor and Social Assistance: Humberto Darío Montes
• Minister of Culture and Tourism: Víctor Cáceres Lara
• Finance Minister: Manuel Fontecha Ferrari
• Minister of Internal and External Defense: José Sierra Hernández.
• Economic Planning Minister: Luis Roberto Flores
• Managing Director of the Instituto Nacional Agrario (INA): Ubodoro Arriaga Iraheta
• Ronald Reagan Ambassador , John Negroponte November 11, 1981 - May 30, 1985
• Ronald Reagan Ambassador, John Arthur Ferch August 22, 1985 - July 9, 1986

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Muere el expresidente hondureño Roberto Suazo Córdova. El Espectador , December 22, 2018 (Spanish). 
2. ^ Negroponte's Time In Honduras at Issue . In: The Washington Post , March 21, 2005
3. ↑ Foolish and stupid . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1982 ( online ).
4. ↑ Rebel War Comes Back to Haunt Honduran Base . In: The New York Times , October 8, 1999.

predecessor	Office	successor
Policarpio Juan Paz García	President of Honduras Jan. 27, 1982-27. January 1986	José Simón Azcona del Hoyo