Armando Calderón Sol

Armando Calderón Sol (* June 24, 1948 in San Salvador, El Salvador) was 1994-1999 President of El Salvador. He is a member of the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista ( ARENA ).

Calderón

The Calderon family shaped the history of El Salvador. The grandfather of Armando Calderón Sol was Division General José Tomas Calderon (aka Chaquetilla ) the commander of the ethnocide in the west of El Salvador in 1932.

In 1981, Roberto D' Aubuisson Arrieta met at the home of Calderón with members of a death squad to the kidnapping of the owner of Procesadora de Acero de El Salvador ( PROACES ) to discuss Emilio Charur.

Lawyer

In 1977 received his doctorate Calderón Organización, fiscalización y Financiamiento de los gent Autónomos jur.soz Dr.. He runs a law firm. He was a founder of ARENA in September 1981. He was Mayor of San Salvador ( 1988-1994). Calderon was a member of the first Consejo Nacional de Ejecutivo ARENA ( Cena ) as Director of Legal Affairs. In the presidential elections of 1994 he reached after elections on 20 March 1994, at the second ballot on 24 April 1994, the majority of the votes cast. His opponent was Ruben Zamora, which was supported by a coalition of FMLN and Convergència Democràtica (CD).

Government

Calderón took up his presidency on 1 June 1994. In Calderón's term of office demands were made ​​of the Chapultepec Peace Accords to implement. This included the preparation of the Policía Nacional Civil, an organ of internal security, which be exclusive responsible for internal security and the human rights violations of the troops previously used in the interior such as: Policía Nacional, Policía de Hacienda, Batallón de Infantería de reacción inmediata should distinguish ( " BIRI " ) or Guardia Nacional.

Economic policies of the World Bank made ​​in El Salvador

As the second President el- salvadorenischer which brought the party to the death squads ARENA into office Calderón took parts of the neoliberal economic program which the ARENA to support by the U.S. government helped in attack. To Calderón's economic advisers was Juan José Manuel Enrique Hinds and Daboub. José Daboub unbundled the state electricity monopoly in Compañía de Alumbrado Eléctrico de San Salvador ( CAESS ) and the Comisión Ejecutiva Hidroeléctrica del Río Lempa (CEL ) to create a private power distribution monopoly. Daboub was then manager of the state-owned telephone company ANTEL and smashed this institution. Manuel Enrique Hinds, who was also employed by the World Bank. promoted economic integration of El Salvador in North America and a fixed exchange rate colon United States dollars. Another prey of the neoliberals were the compulsory state insurance, such as pension funds. These Banco Cuscatlan Owned by the President 's predecessor, Alfredo Cristiani Burkard was Arenero is a bargain brought.

Economic impulses

The financial market was given impetus by the discovery of a large-scale fraud. Roberto Mathies Hill, a prominent supporter of ARENA was arrested, because the means of financial service Finsepro and Insepro had embezzled to support companies in his possession, which were on the edge of bankruptcy. Approximately 1,400 investors were defrauded and the losses were calculated at 113 million United Sates dollars. The financial supervision was dismissed because she had the fraud not discovered earlier and the FBI has been switched to a possible money laundering to investigate.

Impuesto al Valor Agregado

Under the government of Calderón VAT impuesto al valor Agregado (VAT) was raised to merchandise ranging from 10 % to 13 %. Thus, the state increasingly finances of all, poor large part of the population.

Mitch

The traditional, such as the neo-liberal economic policies leading to the large populations of nature are exposed unprotected. This leads to a natural phenomenon, as the next material damage also increased extent require sacrifice of human life in the term of office of Calderon, from 22 October to 8 November 1998 on the land drawn Hurricane Mitch.

Discharge

After his presidency passed on 1 June 1999 on the previous business association president Francisco Flores Pérez, Calderón Sol was elected to the Central American Parliament.

Comments

• President ( El Salvador)
• Person (San Salvador)
• Salvadorans
• Born in 1948
• Man