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Former Honduran President Jose Azcona dies at 78
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Oct 25, 2005 05:35pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former President Jose Azcona Hoyo was buried Tuesday before some 3,000 mourners, a day after he died of a heart attack. He was 78.
Roman Catholic Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez said Mass for Azcona, who was president from 1986 to 1990 as the neighboring Central American nations of Nicaragua and El Salvador were enveloped in civil wars.
As part of peace efforts, Azcona oversaw the start of the dismantling of bases for some 16,000 U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels, whose presence Honduras had once denied.
Azcona was born to a Spanish immigrant couple in the northern city of La Ceiba in 1927 and he was educated in Honduras and Mexico as a civil engineer. |
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