Carlos DÃ¡vila

Carlos Dávila Espinoza ( born September 15, 1887 in Los Ángeles, † October 19, 1955 in Washington, DC) was a Chilean politician, diplomat and journalist. With dictatorial means he ruled his country for nearly 1932 100 days as president.

Life

After attending school in Los Ángeles and Concepción Dávila began in 1911 to study law at the Universidad de Chile; In the same year he took over as head of public relations of the Radical Party, which he joined in his youth. He soon abandoned his studies and worked in the editorial of the prestigious daily newspaper El Mercurio.

In 1917 he founded his own newspaper, La Nación. Under President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, whom he revered, glowing, Dávila was 1927-1931 Chilean Ambassador to the United States. There he completed his law degree and received the degree of Doctor of Law from the Columbia University.

Coup and presidential

Following the resignation of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez was followed as president. Dávila was one of the driving forces of the military coup which overthrew Montero force on 4 June 1932. The victorious junta, who was Dávila, proclaimed the Socialist Republic of Chile, but should last only twelve days. Surprising there were differences, especially between Dávila and Defense Marmaduque Grove so that Dávila resigned from the junta. On 16 June 1932 he was at the forefront of insurgent Ibáñez - loyal army garrison of Santiago back. Grove and other members of the coup junta were banished to the Easter Island, while Carlos Dávila had proclaimed himself president and sole with moderate democrats and radicals formed a new government.

For a period of nearly 100 days, until September 13, Dávila remained in office, with its significant contribution to Chilean politics in the proclamation of martial law existed. The repressive line Davila led quickly to that his liberal colleagues, Alberto Cabero, resigned and the new junta destabilized. Dávila tried to sort out the economic crisis by giving the state control over production, wages and prices in the hand.

This policy of planned state economy meant that turned away the liberal forces more and more of Dávila; September 13, finally it came to re- coup that drove Dávila from office. The General of the Chilean army Bartolomeo Blanche Espejo took over temporarily the power until it has been elected in free elections Arturo Alessandri on 30 October as the new President and the country could fall into overall policy paths again.

International activities after 1933

After this unflattering stint as president in Chile Dávila went again in 1933 in the United States, where he founded the news agency editor 's Press Service and worked as a correspondent for several South American music.

In 1940 he represented his country internationally on the American Business Conference, and in 1946, the United Nations appointed him in their Economic and Social Council. His book Nosotros los de América ( We of America), which appeared in 1949, evoked the spirit of an economically and politically united defense of Latin America, modeled on the Schuman Plan for Europe.

As an ex - dictator Ibáñez in 1952 again elected president, his supporters Dávila once again took over the office of the editor of La Nación, until he was appointed in June 1954 to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. In this role, he died on October 19, 1955 in Washington.

President ( Chile)
Chilean Ambassador to the United States
Journalist (Chile)
Chilean
Born in 1887
Died in 1955
Man

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