Romero, Carlos Humberto

Romero, Carlos Humberto

▪ president of El Salvador
born 1924, Chalatenango, El Salvador

      former general, elected president of El Salvador in 1977 and deposed in 1979.

      Romero, backed by ultraconservatives, won an election wracked by bloodshed and clouded by accusations of voting fraud. A staunch anticommunist, he defended the use of military force to ensure political order. His inauguration was boycotted by the archbishop of San Salvador to protest the military's treatment of the church. Dozens of priests had been killed, kidnapped, expelled, or arrested by the military since the Feb. 20, 1977, elections.

      In 1978 Romero attempted to improve his administration's image abroad by abrogating the hated Law of Defense and Public Order, but government repression continued, as did the protests of a populist coalition of workers, peasants, and students called the Popular Revolutionary Bloc. On May 18 Romero convened a national forum on the problem of violence, but, since he did not invite the Popular Bloc (which he had declared illegal), the forum was boycotted by the entire opposition, including political parties, labour unions, and the church. A general amnesty was declared on Aug. 16, 1979, but this move failed to avert violence.

      Guerrillas assassinated his brother and, on September 23, attacked the president's residence. The October 1979 coup against Romero was influenced by the fall of the government of Anastasio Somoza Debayle (Somoza Debayle, Anastasio) in Nicaragua. Romero was deposed by a group of younger military officers led by Col. Adolfo Arnoldo Majano Ramos, and Romero fled to Guatemala. On May 2, 1980, he backed an unsuccessful rightist coup against the military-civilian junta which had ruled since he was ousted from office.

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