Héctor Gramajo
Héctor Alejandro Gramajo Morales (11 August 1940 – 12 March 2004) was a general in the Guatemalan Military of Guatemala, Army who served as Ministry of Defence (Guatemala), Defense Minister from 1 February 1987 to 20 May 1990, during the long years of the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996). He ran unsuccessfully in 1995 Guatemalan general election, 1995 elections as the presidential candidate for the coalition between the Frente de Unidad Nacional (Guatemala), Frente de Unidad Nacional (FUN) and Partido Institucional Democrático (PID) parties. Early life and education Héctor Gramajo Morales was born in 1940 in San Juan Ostuncalco, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Career He entered the Army as a young man in 1957 and rose in the ranks. His graduating class at the Escuela Politécnica (1959) included officers who would later be among the founding members and leaders of Guatemala's guerrilla insurgency, such as his friends Luis Augusto Turcios Lima and Luis Trejo Esquivel. He becam ...
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