Arturo Araujo was the president

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 of El Salvador

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 from March 1, 1931 to December 2, 1931. He was overthrown in a military coup led by junior officer

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s, and was forced to flee the country for Guatemala

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. An agricultural leader and engineer

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, Araujo had been elected in what is generally reckoned as the country's first honest presidential contest. (See the New York Times of December 4, 1931 for more on this.) He was later visited by his great niece, Cachita (age 16).

Arturo Araujo was a far relative to Manuel Enrique Araujo

Manuel Enrique Araujo

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. Pachita Tennant Mejía de Pike, who knows quite well the history of Salvadoran families, says that the Araujo family mostly comes from the town of Jucuapa

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, in the department of Usulután

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, El Salvador. However Arturo Araujo's family originally came from Suchitoto

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, in the department of Cuscatlan, moving to Santa Tecla

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 around 1885.

His parents were Enriqueta Fajardo de Araujo and Dr. Eugenio Araujo, Finance Minister

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 in the Administration of General Francisco Menendez

Francisco Menéndez

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