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Former Salvadoran president Calderon dies at 69
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 9, 2017 / 1:52 PM / UPDATED 19 MINUTES AGO
Former Salvadoran president Calderon dies at 69
Reuters Staff
2 MIN READ
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Former Salvadoran President Armando Calderon, who helped oversee the Central American country’s transition from a bloody civil war to peace in the 1990s, has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, his family said on Monday.
Calderon, who was president from 1994 to 1999 as the reconstruction of the divided country took hold, died around midnight in a hospital in Houston where he was admitted in critical condition with an undisclosed form of cancer.
El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war, which pitted a U.S.-backed right-wing government against the leftist guerilla Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), claimed some 75,000 lives and left around another 8,000 people missing.
A founder of the powerful, right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), Calderon as president ushered in a string of business-friendly economic reforms including a privatization of the telecoms sector and the pension system.
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Former Salvadoran president Calderon dies at 69
Reuters Staff
2 MIN READ
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Former Salvadoran President Armando Calderon, who helped oversee the Central American country’s transition from a bloody civil war to peace in the 1990s, has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, his family said on Monday.
Calderon, who was president from 1994 to 1999 as the reconstruction of the divided country took hold, died around midnight in a hospital in Houston where he was admitted in critical condition with an undisclosed form of cancer.
El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war, which pitted a U.S.-backed right-wing government against the leftist guerilla Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), claimed some 75,000 lives and left around another 8,000 people missing.
A founder of the powerful, right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), Calderon as president ushered in a string of business-friendly economic reforms including a privatization of the telecoms sector and the pension system.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-calderon/former-salvadoran-president-calderon-dies-at-69-idUSKBN1CE25K
