Carlos Humberto Romero
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Chalatenango, Chalatenango
Chalatenango is a town and municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department.The coat of arms is actually the same as the department's, as is the flag....
) is a former President of El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
, having served from 1977 until 1979. He was deposed with a reformist coup d'état
Coup d'état
A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...
by dissident, politically-conservative and -moderate military officers and civilians. President-General Romero's rule was military dictatorship
Military dictatorship
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in the style of his predecessors. In the late 1970s, political unrest increased, because of El Salvador's severe socio-economic inequalities unaddressed by his government, so, leftist
Left-wing politics
In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...
guerrillas began attacking military targets, and civil opponents of the régime asked the President Romero's government for reform.
The coup d'état that deposed President-General Humberto Romero was preamble to El Salvador's twelve-year civil war. Romero was a member of the National Conciliation Party.