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Alberto Fuentes Mohr (born 22 November 1927 – assassinated 25 January 1979) was a
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n economist and politician, one of the founders of the
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. He also served as
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and
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during the 1960s.


Biography

Alberto Fuentes Mohr was born in
Quetzaltenango Quetzaltenango (, also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela ) is both the seat of the namesake Department and municipality, in Guatemala. The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of above sea level at its lowest part. It m ...
on 22 November 1927 as the son Dr. Alberto Fuentes Castillo and Maria Luisa Mohr. His father was the mayor of Quetzaltenango and a member of the
Revolutionary Action Party Revolutionary Action Party ( es, Partido Acción Revolucionaria, PAR) was a leftist political party in Guatemala during the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution. Formed in 1945, the party went through a series of mergers and fractures before dissolving ...
. He was also the owner of the Farmacia Fuentes. Eduardo Antonio Velàsquez Carrera
FUENTES MOHR Y SU LEGADO, A 35 AÑOS DE SU ASESINATO
, ''Narrativayensayoguatemaltecos.com''
His mother was the daughter of Guillaume Mohr Laurent, who emigrated from the Alsace province in France in the last quarter of the XVII century and one of the pioneers in the cultivation of coffee on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala with well-known farms such as San Juan Bautista and San Isidro Piedra Parada.https://www.facebook.com/pg/Xotics.Fruits/about/ Alberto Fuentes Mohr followed his primary education in
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and
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, and his secondary education at the Instituto Nacional de Varones del Occidente (INVO). He earned a scholarship from the
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to study economics at the
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in
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, and then earned a doctorate in economy at the
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. On his return to Guatemala, he started to work for the
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. From 1956 to 1857, he worked for the department of the
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. From 1957 to 1958, he headed the Mexico-based branch of the
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. In 1962, he was nominated as a member of the executive committee of the Latin-American Institute of Economic and Social Planification. In 1966, Alberto Fuentes Mohr was appointed
Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...
(''Ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público'') in the government of
Julio César Méndez Montenegro Julio César Méndez Montenegro (November 23, 1915 – † April 30, 1996) was the Revolutionary Party President of Guatemala from July 1, 1966 to July 1, 1970. Mendez was elected on a platform promising democratic reforms and the curtailment of ...
. However, his reformist financial policies, including a controversial fiscal reform, resulted in his transfer from the ministry of finance to the ministry of foreign affairs.Asesinan al diputado Alberto Fuentes Mohr
''Prensalibre.com'', 25 January 2017
On February 27, 1970, while serving as Guatemala's minister of foreign affairs, Fuentes Mohr was briefly kidnapped by an urban guerrilla commando of the FAR, but was released just before election day after the government released FAR rebel Vicente Girón Calvillo from prison. In November 1970, Fuentes Mohr was detained by the government of Colonel
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (July 17, 1918 – December 6, 2003) was President of Guatemala from 1970 to 1974. His government enforced torture, disappearances and killings against political and military adversaries, as well as common criminals. ...
and forced into exile. From 1970 to 1974, he lectured at the
University of Central America José Simeón Cañas Central American University ( es, Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"), also known as UCA El Salvador, is a private university with nonprofit purposes in San Salvador, El Salvador, run by the Society of Jesus. ...
in Costa Rica. In 1974, Fuentes Mohr returned to Guatemala and ran as a candidate for the vice-presidency for the Frente Nacional de Oposición in the 1974 elections. Having been elected has a member of congress for Quetzaltenango, he started the preparations for the foundation of the Social Democratic party (PSD). Alberto Fuentes Mohr was assassinated on 25 January 1979, shot by a caliber 45 in his car on his way from the Congress to his home, in an attack that lasted 32 seconds. José Racancoj
Camposanto resguarda los restos de Fuentes Mohr, pero su memoria vive en las calles
''Memorialparalaconcordia.org''
Former
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mayor and leading opposition politician Manuel Colom was also assassinated. Those were times of political repression by the right-wing military dominated government during the regime of General Romeo Lucas (president from 1978 until he was overthrown in 1982 by another right-wing faction of the military).


Published works

* * ''Impuestos sobre los intermediarios financieros y sus operaciones''. Organización de Estados Americanos, Oficina de Finanzas Públicas in San José, Costa Rica. 1973 *


Prizes

*1957: Commander in the
Order of the Quetzal The Order of the Quetzal (Spanish: Orden del Quetzal) is Guatemala’s highest honor. History and award conditions Established in 1936, it is bestowed by the Government of Guatemala Politics of Guatemala takes place in a framework of a pr ...
, in recognition for his efforts to promote the development of the Latin American Economic integration, and the Central American Common Market in particular.


See also

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List of solved missing person cases Lists of solved missing person cases include: * List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000 * List of solved missing person cases: post-2000 See also * List of kidnappings * List of murder convictions without a body * List of people who di ...


References


External links

*Anderson, Thomas P. 1988
Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Revised Edition. pp. 40–41. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuentes Mohr, Alberto 1927 births 1970s missing person cases 1979 deaths 20th-century economists Assassinated Guatemalan politicians Academic staff of Central American University Commanders of the Order of the Quetzal Deaths by firearm in Guatemala Finance ministers of Guatemala Foreign ministers of Guatemala Formerly missing people Government ministers of Guatemala Guatemalan economists Kidnapped Guatemalan people Kidnappings in Guatemala Male murder victims Missing person cases in Guatemala People murdered in Guatemala People of the Guatemalan Civil War Terrorism deaths in Guatemala