Enrique Álvarez

Enrique Álvarez Córdova (1930 - 1980) was a politician and statesman of El Salvador. After a frustrated attempt to be a Salvadoran "New Dealer," attempting to implement agrarian reform as El Salvador's minister of agriculture and cattle raising, Álvarez dramatically changed course and joined the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionário or FDR). [http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~lamperti/centralamerica_presente.html Lamperti, Enrique Alvarez: ¡Presente!] Assassinated in 1980, Álvarez has been called "the first rich man who gave his life for the poor of El Salvador." [http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~lamperti/centralamerica.html Lamperti, ibid., quoting Msgr. Ricardo Urioste.] In November, 1980 he was kidnapped and murdered together with other directors of the FDR by elements of the Salvadoran police and military.

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