• Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (20 June 1930 – 2 December 1987) was an army officer in the Honduran military who served as the head of state of Honduras from...
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    in the mid-1970s by corruption scandals. The regimes of Gen. Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (1975–78) and Gen. Policarpo Paz García (1978–82) largely built...
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    Honduras in 1969. Following a 1978 military coup that ousted General Juan Alberto Melgar as chief of state, a three-man junta headed by Paz Garcia took power...
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  • Arellano being ousted in a military coup led by his fellow General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro. The coup was prompted in part by the "Bananagate" scandal, exposed...
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    most recent general election was held on 28 November 2021, with Xiomara Castro of Libre elected president, taking office on 27 January 2022. Honduras portal...
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  • Trinidad Cabañas Tiburcio Carías Andino Victoriano Castellanos Juan Alberto Melgar Castro Coronado Chávez Vicente Mejía Colindres Roberto Suazo Córdova...
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    Flores faced National party candidate Nora Gúnera de Melgar, the wife of General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, who seized power in a 1975 coup which removed then...
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  • Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, heart attack December 2 Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, 57, Honduran military officer, president of Honduras, heart attack...
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    1963 and a second in December 1972, followed by coups in 1975 by Juan Alberto Melgar Castro and in 1978 by Policarpo Paz García. Events during the 1980s in...
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  • Policarpo Paz García overthrew Juan Alberto Melgar Castro in a "cocaine coup" financed by the Medellín Cartel-linked drug lord Juan Matta-Ballesteros. The CIA...
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