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Ardito Barletta Vallarino, Nicolás
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| Affiliation | Democratic Revolutionary |
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| Name | Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino |
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August 21, 1938
(87 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Apr 21, 2025 08:40pm |
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| Info | Ardito Barletta Vallarino, Nicolás (b. Aug. 21, 1938, Las Tablas, Panama), president of Panama (1984-85). His father was mayor of Panama City. The younger Ardito Barletta was minister of planning and economic policy from 1973 to 1978, when he resigned as one of Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera's trusted advisers to become World Bank vice-president for Latin America and the Caribbean. He was approached late in 1983 by friends in the Panamanian government about running for president. In February 1984 Ricardo de la Espriella unexpectedly resigned the office and was succeeded by the vice-president, Jorge Illueca, who did not enter the race. Ardito Barletta ran as the coalition candidate backed by the National Guard, and his candidacy had government support. On May 16, 1984, after ten days of challenges and accusations of fraud in the counting of more than 600,000 ballots cast, Ardito Barletta was declared winner by 1,713 votes. He defeated the 82-year-old Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who was president three times and was ousted from office by a military coup each time. The election was the country's first after 16 years of military rule; it had been agreed to during negotiations between the U.S. and Panama that led to the signing of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty (Ardito Barletta was among the negotiators for Panama). In his Oct. 11, 1984, inaugural address, preceded by a demonstration of 1,200 protesters that was quelled by the National Guard, Ardito Barletta pledged to repair the economy, fight corruption, and unite Panama's political parties. Calmly, he urged the military to "go back to the barracks."
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