Francisco Morales Bermúdez

Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerruti ( born October 4, 1921 in Lima, Peru), General and politician who served from 1975 to 1980 in power in Peru.

Life

Francisco Morales Bermúdez was born in 1921 in Lima, the son of Colonel Remigio Morales Bermúdez. He is the grandson of Remigio Morales Bermúdez, the President of Peru, 1890-1894. In 1939 he went to training at the Military School of Chorrillos. After graduating, he was an important member of the Center for Advanced Military Studies ( CAEM ).

He brought it to the rank of brigadier general and in 1963 under the democratically elected President Fernando Belaúnde Terry Finance. He had to retire again after two months, due to internal problems of the government of that office but.

After Belaúnde was overthrown in a coup, the military government of General Velasco Morales Bermúdez again offered the post of finance minister. In 1974 he was at the same time Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. As of February 1975, he was also the Supreme Commander of the Peruvian armed forces. On August 29th of the same year, Morales Bermúdez coup against General Velasco. The following day he called himself out as president.

Presidency

The political and economic reforms under the government of Morales Bermúdez remained largely ineffective. Morales Bermúdez aspired to the transfer of power to a civilian government. 1978, elections were held for a Constituent Assembly. These adopted in 1979 a new constitution, which replaced the Peruvian Constitution of 1933.

After the democratic elections of 1980 Morales Bermúdez was replaced by Fernando Belaúnde, who began his second term as president. Francisco Morales Bermúdez came after that occasionally publicly and made ​​speeches, especially on the situation of the army. In 1985 he stood as a candidate in the presidential election, but received less than 1% of the vote.

President before 1950 | Zenón Noriega Agüero | Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti | Manuel Prado y Ugarteche | Ricardo Pérez Godoy | Nicolás Lindley López | Fernando Belaúnde Terry | Juan Velasco Alvarado | Francisco Morales Bermúdez | Alberto Fujimori | Valentín Paniagua Corazao | Alejandro Toledo Manrique | Alan García Pérez | Ollanta Humala Tasso

• President ( Peru)
• Prime Minister (Peru )
• Of the Order El Sol del Perú
• Peruvian
• Born 1921
• Man