Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia (June 17 1908 – February 18 1997, aged 88) was President of Guatemala

President of Guatemala

The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1839, when that title was assumed by Mariano Rivera Paz...

 from 31 March 1963 to 1 July 1966.

Enrique Peralta was born on June 17, 1908 in Guatemala City

Guatemala City

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. He took over the presidency after a coup against president Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

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. He set up the Institutional Democratic Party

Institutional Democratic Party

The Institutional Democratic Party was a Guatemalan pro-government political party active during the 1970s.The PID was formed in 1963 by Enrique Peralta Azurdia after he had seized power in a coup. A centre-right party, it was modelled on the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party. From the...

, a pro-military governning party modeled on the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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, which dominated Guatemalan politics until 1982. In the 1978 election

Guatemalan general election, 1978

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, he was the candidate of the National Liberation Movement

National Liberation Movement (Guatemala)

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 but was defeated by Fernando Romeo Lucas García

Fernando Romeo Lucas García

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