Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera was a lawyer and politician from El Salvador and former Vice President of El Salvador in the 1960s.
Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera | |
|---|---|
 Lima (right) in 1961 | |
| Vice President of El Salvador | |
| In office 1 July 1962 – 1 July 1967 | |
| President | Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo |
| Preceded by | Francisco José Guerrero and Salvador Ramírez Siliézar |
| Succeeded by | Humberto Guillermo Cuestas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 February 1917 San Salvador |
| Political party | National Conciliation Party |
| Education | Lawyer |
Lima was born on 13 February 1917,[1] in San Salvador.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3] In 1948 he chaired a commission called National Social Security Planning Council.[1]
Lima was appointed Salvadoran ambassador to United States in May 1961.[4] He was elected as Vice President of El Salvador in the 1962 elections, and served in the presidency of colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera.[1] In addition to vice presidency, he continued concurrently as ambassador to the United States until 1964, when he broke with president Rivera. He drafted an income tax law in 1964.[3]
In 1990s Lima was a professor of constitutional and administrative law.[5] He was the vice presidential candidate of FMLN–CD ticket in the 1994 presidential elections.[6] He was threatened by a group called Fuerza Nacionalista Mayor Roberto D’Aubuisson in 1996.[7]
In 2008, he was awarded a title of "Distinguished Jurist of El Salvador" by Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.[8] He died sometime before 2011.
References edit
- ^ a b c Lic Carlos Joya (2017-06-01). "Historia del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (parte I)" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-10-07. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "Períodos presidenciales y constituciones federales y políticas de El Salvador" (in Spanish). Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Publicaciones. 1980.
- ^ a b Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems (U.S.) (1967). "El Salvador Election Factbook, March 5, 1967". Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems.
- ^ "El Salvador". U.S. Department of State.
- ^ "LAND, ISLAND AND MARITIME FRONTIER DISPUTE (EL SALVADOR/HONDURAS: NICARAGUA (intervening)" (PDF). International Court of Justice.
- ^ "CANDIDATOS A PRESIDENTE 1989 a 2014". Tribunal Supremo Electoral de El Salvador.
- ^ "EL SALVADOR The spectre of death squads" (PDF). Amnesty International.
- ^ "Anuario Legislativo 2008-2009, Tomo I" (PDF).
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