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| Affiliation | Panameñista |
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| Name | Arnulfo Arias Madrid |
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| Email | None |
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August 15, 1901
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| Died | August 10, 1988
(86 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid (August 15, 1901 – August 10, 1988 in Miami, Florida) was president of Panama on three occasions: 1940–41, 1949–51, and for two weeks in October 1968. Each of these three presidential mandates ended with his being deposed by military coups.
A Harvard-trained physician, he led the coup that deposed President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena in 1931. He subsequently served in cabinet and diplomatic posts. In 1940, he was elected president by an unprecedented majority. He jailed dissidents, disenfranchised the non-Spanish-speaking population, and expressed an allegiance with the Axis powers of World War II. He was ousted in October 1941, in a coup supported by the United States. Reelected president in 1949, he was deposed in May, 1951, after organizing his own secret police and suspending the constitution. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1964, then won election in 1968 as the standard-bearer of a five-party coalition. Taking office in October, he maneuvered to gain control of the national assembly and the supreme court and to restructure the command of the national guard. After only 11 days as president, he was ousted by national guard officers. In 1984, he again ran for the presidency but was defeated at the polls in a fraudulen elections controlled by Manuel Noriega, who favoured government supported candidate Nicolas Ardito Barletta. Due to this fraud, Barletta was nicknamed fraudito (little fraud), in reference to his second name Ardito.
His nationalist program and ties with fascist states in Europe discomforted the United States. In Germany some friends called him the "Sturmbahnfuhrer der Mittelamerika", for his ideas in line with present European policies in his Panameñism nationalist doctrine and Acción Comunal movement. He also used the swastika and fasces as symbols, in coincidence with European fascists; this movement are proposed your organization by Ramón Mora and Manuel C. Galvez Berrocal. mentioned leader along Roberto Clemente and Homero Ayala (other leaders in the movement) leading to some armed action during attempt at a coup d'état on January 2, 1931, against President Harmodio Arias's government. He tried to implement his nationalist political program during the 1941 administration.
The Arnulfista Party, founded in 1990, was named in homage to him. His widow, Mireya Moscoso, representing that party, was elected president of Panama in 1999. In 2005 it was renamed to Panameñista Party, which represents Aria's vocation for nationalism.
Arias Madrid, Arnulfo (b. Aug. 15, 1901, Penonomé, Colombia [now in Coclé province, Panama] - d. Aug. 10, 1988, Miami, Fla., U.S.), president of Panama (1940-41, 1949-51, 1968); brother of Harmodio Arias Madrid. He became interested in politics during the late 1920s, participated in a revolution in 1931, and founded the party that brought his brother to the presidency in 1932. He served as minister of public works and agriculture (1935-36) and then as ambassador to France and Britain. In 1940 he was elected president himself. He instituted his country's social security system, gave the vote to women, strengthened labour laws, forced foreign businessmen to transfer their companies to Panamanian ownership, and divested black West Indians in Panama of their citizenship. When he scrapped the constitution and extended his presidential term in office to six years, he was ousted in a military coup (probably supported by the United States, who were worried about his connections to the Axis powers and his opposition to U.S. requests for defense installations) and went into exile until 1945. Elected president again in 1948, the election results were thrown out and only recognized eighteen months later. During his second term he again tried to revoke the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly and the Supreme Court, and was finally deposed by the police. Denied political rights from 1951 to 1960, he lost presidential elections in 1964 apparently due to fraud. Four years later, his victory was so overwhelming that it had to be recognized, but he served only 11 days before being deposed by the military. He narrowly lost the 1984 election in what many again claimed was fraud. In exile in Miami, he opposed the military regimes of Gen. Omar Torrijos and Gen. Manuel Noriega.
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