Arturo Araujo

Arturo Araujo (* 1878 in Santa Tecla, † December 1, 1967 in San Salvador) was the president of El Salvador. He took office on March 1, 1931, he was overthrown by a coup d'état on 2 December 1931.

Biography

Arturo Araujo was a son of Enriqueta Fajardo de Araujo and Dr. Eugenio Araujo, who was finance minister in the cabinet of General Tomás Regalado. He belonged to the Latifundistenoligarchie. His first wife came from the U.S., with her he had a daughter. His second wife was Rosa Amelia Guzmán de Araujo, with her he had a son. Araujo studied in UK history, where he became a follower of the Labour Party. 1917, after the earthquake, in the reign of Carlos Meléndez, he was involved in the reconstruction of Armenia to the west of El Salvador. For presidential campaign in 1930, he founded the Partido laboratory Paulista de El Salvador and could count on the support of the teacher and writer Alberto Masferrer. He was elected to an exceptionally correct election as President of El Salvador. He took up his post on 1 March 1931. El Salvador economically still suffering from the effects of the world economic crisis of 1929. The coffee price had fallen within six months by 45 %, which was also expressed in a balance of payments deficit. The Kaffeebourgeousie paid no taxes and Araujo's executive could not pay salaries or wages. The farm workers demanded their wages and better living conditions that were often denied to them by themselves grand -talking Latifundisten, with strikes, followed often by the Guardia Nacional was appointed to the haciendas.

There were the Guardia, who waited even on their pay, to eat from the land owners and plenty to drink something, for which the Guardia partially thanked with murder of the protesting peasants. It state of emergency was imposed. The policy of unpaid wages and the lack of pay made ​​Araujo unpopular with the public servants and the military. The repression by Guardia and government troops under the command of Defense Minister Maximiliano Hernández Martínez made ​​him unpopular with the peasants. The Kaffeebourgeousie could not do anything with Labour but supported Hernández Martínez during the coup against Araujo early December 1931.

As Araujo had fled to Guatemala, appeared the coup leader Maximiliano Hernández Martínez and claimed his fascist party, the Partido Pro Patria (PPP ), had made him in elections to the Deputy President who to take according to the Constitution in the absence of the President whose business have.

  • President ( El Salvador)
  • Salvadorans
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1967
  • Man
Santa Tecla, El Salvador National Guard (El Salvador) Armed Forces of El Salvador
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