Arnulfo Arias

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Arnulfo Arias Madrid (born in 1901) was a Panamanian politician, researcher, and writer who served as the President of Panama from 1940 to 1951, then again in October 1968, and then for 11 days in October 1968.

Political life

Arias returned to Panama in 1925 and took over the leadership of the nationalistic group Patriotic Communal Action. This group was tapping into a building current of dissatisfaction in Panama against the country's massive influence. It was the nucleus of the nascent Panamesi Party, which was derived from the word "noblegation." Panama had been a US protectorate for all intents and purposes since the United States helped it claim independence in 1903 from Colombia. Arias was branded a nationalist.

Arias led a revolution that deposed Liberal President Florencio Arosemena in 1931. Harmodio's brother Harmodio became president next year, and he helped him become president Harmodio. He has since served in cabinet and diplomatic positions. During Benito Mussolini's reign, he served as Ambassador to Italy.

He was elected by a vast majority as the president of the National Revolutionary Party in 1940 (PNR), which later became the Panameista Party in the mid-1940s). For the first time since being elected, Arias introduced a new constitution that guaranteed women the right to vote. He was deposed in October 1941 in a police coup. Arias was a vocal nationalist. Some believed he was pro-Axis because he served in Mussolini, Italy. Some Washington politicians were suspicious of Arias' ruling Panama with war looming. According to some historians, Roosevelt favored his ouster from office.

Arias has consistently condemned the position of the police in politics, often referring to it as "a tumor" on the body politic. He ran for president again in 1948 as the leader of a coalition of his party and the Authentic Revolutionary Party, but was not allowed to be seated. However, a year later, the National Assembly declared that he had won. Norberto Navarro, the Minister of Public Works, was named by his long-time collaborator. Faced with increasing police meddling, Arias suspended the law and created government entities to challenge the police's control. But they were unable to reduce their power because of their inability. In 1951, he was overthrown by Panama City's police chief, Colonel Jose Remon Cantera, but the country did not have an army. Arias left the country but remained extremely popular among the masses. He ran in 1964 and then took the Republican nominations in 1968 as the standard bearer of a five-party coalition.

He took office in October and wanted to restructure the National Guard's leadership. For the third time as president, he was deposed for the third time after only 11 days as president, and he attempted to flee the Canal Zone at midnight. Arias forgot to erase evidence of his misconduct, repeating conduct from his previous administrations, but his opposition seized quickly. Omar Torrijos' men targeted the White Palace. Arias, having seen his guards disappear and after being alerted by Costa Rican President José Joaqun Trejos Fernández that the fence had been closed, he and his Chief of Staff, Hildebrando Nicosia, left the palace together with Hildebrando Nicosia.

Nicosia called Michael J. Merry, his son-in-law and president of a U.S. communications firm, to pick up Arias and three ministers of state at a prearranged location. Military patrols were already searching the city for Arias by that time. Merry escaped through the Panama Canal Zone, where the government's headquarters had been planned, with the country's leaders and a range of automatic weapons in his car.

Merry was forced to bluff his way back to Panama City after the Canal Zone, an independent political body, refused to allow the weapons to remain in its territory. Arias and Nicosia followed the Canal Zone to Miami, Florida, where they eventually moved to Miami, Florida. His 93-year-father, on the other hand, was sleeping upstairs, but he was unharmed and destressed after taking her hearing aids out to sleep.

Arias and Nicosia returned to Panama in 1978 after the US pressured military leader Omar Torrijos to liberalize his government. Although they were exiled, a tiny dissident group in Arias' Panamese Panameta Party joined the pro-Torrijos coalition and took over the party's registration. The majority of the party remained with Arias, renaming it the Authentic Panamest Party. In 1990, the Arnulfista Party was renamed, but the Panameista Party, a faction of the Panamest Party, was revived in 2005.

The 83-year-old Arias ran for president again in 1984. A book Holocaust in Panama, published by Noriega with the Israeli Mossad's assistance, fraudulently implied that Arias ordered a massacre of Jews in 1941, complicated his campaign. When exit polls revealed Arias with a large advantage, the government, now headed by Manuel Noriega, suspended the count and brazenly altered the results to announce that its favorite candidate, Nicolás Barletta, had won by a mere 1,713 votes. Arias would have won in a landslide if the election had been held in a fair manner, according to independent observers. Barletta's name, Ardito, comes from his second name, fraud. Arias emigrated to Florida once more. It was the start of the Noriega military dictatorship.

Personal life

Arias married Ana Matilde Linares in 1927 and lived together until her death in 1955. In 1964, he married Mireya Moscoso. They stayed together until his death. Following the 1999 general elections, Moscoso became Panama's first female President.

Gerardo Edilberto Arias (1929-2002), who was born in England, became his son during his first marriage.

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