Víctor Suances y Díaz del Río | |
Term Start: | 12 August 1966 |
Term End: | 12 October 1968 |
Successor: | Position abolished |
Term Start1: | 16 September 1940 |
Term End1: | 17 May 1941 |
Term Start2: | 30 August 1939 |
Term End2: | 15 December 1939 |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Occupation: | Military officer |
Víctor Suances y Díaz del Río was a Spanish military officer who served as the last colonial administrator of Spanish Guinea from August 1966[1] until the independence of Equatorial Guinea in October 1968.[2] During his tenure as colonial administrator, Spanish Guinea held a constitutional referendum and a general election in the months leading to independence, in which Francisco Macías Nguema was elected as the country's first president.