Alfonso Callejas Explained

Alfonso Callejas Deshón
Office1:Vice President of Nicaragua
Term Start1:1 May 1967
Term End1:1 May 1972
Alongside1:Francisco Urcuyo
Predecessor1:Silvio Argüello Cardenal and Gustavo Raskosky
Successor1:Sergio Ramírez (1985)
President1:Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Birth Date:27 October 1923
Birth Place:Chinandega
Death Date:August 2017
Party:Nationalist Liberal Party
Alma Mater:University of Santa Clara

Alfonso Callejas Deshón (1923-2017) was a politician of Nationalist Liberal Party from Nicaragua.

He served as Vice President of Nicaragua[1] from May 1967 to May 1972.[2]

Callejas was born on 27 October 1923 in Chinandega.[3] He was trained as a civil engineer and worked in Standard Fruit Company before founding his own business. Between January and August 1966, he was Minister of Development and Public Works in Somoza cabinet.[4] He was then appointed as Vice President of Nicaragua.[5] In 1972, he broke with Anastasio Somoza Debayle.[6] He went into exile in Honduras. After the 1979 revolution, Callejas returned, but went again into exile after his properties were confiscated.

He lived in voluntary exile from 1980 to 1990, when he returned to Nicaragua. From 1995 to 2000 he was a magistrate in the Supreme Electoral Council and in 2003 appointed Secretary for Political Affairs of the Presidency by Enrique Bolaños.

He died in August 2017 in Chinandega.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreign Relations of the United States 1977–1980; Volume XV; Central America, 1977–1980 - Office of the Historian . 2022-10-06 . Office of the Historian.
  2. Web site: 2008-10-25 . Vicepresidencia de la República . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081025000247/http://www.vicepresidencia.gob.ni/noticias/2008/jul/vp.html . October 25, 2008 . 2022-10-06 . Office of Vice President of Nicaragua.
  3. Web site: Nicaraguan biographies: a resource book . U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs . 1988. 2027/uc1.31210024733576?urlappend=%3Bseq=62 .
  4. Web site: Vice Presidencia de la República. 2 February 2014. 12 March 2023. 2 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202102230/http://www.vicepresidencia.gob.ni/?inc=view&view=profiles&id=43. bot: unknown.
  5. Web site: Affairs . United States Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere . U.S. Support for the Contras: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, April 16, 17, and 18, 1985 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en . 1985.
  6. Chamorro . Edgar . Morley . Jefferson . 1985-08-05 . Confessions of a 'Contra' . The New Republic . 2022-10-06 . 0028-6583.
  7. Web site: :::Bolsa de Noticias::: ***Managua, Nicaragua*** . bolsadenoticias.com.ni.