Alfredo Cristiani Burkard born on November 22, 1947 in San Salvador in El Salvador, was President of El Salvador between 1 June 1989 and 1 June 1994. November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... San Salvador is the capital city of the nation of El Salvador. ... This page contains a list of presidents of El Salvador. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Career

Born into a wealthy coffee-producing family and educated at Escuela Americana (American School) in San Salvador, and then graduated with a degree in Administrative Sciences at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in the U.S.. He returned to El Salvador to work in the family business, which included pharmaceuticals and cotton. He also married Margarita Llach, with whom he has 3 children. He remained outside politics until the beginning of the 1980s when the leftist FMLN guerrillas and their campesino followers began squatting on farms. As the civil war became more widespread, he became involved with the rightist ARENA party, founded by military intelligence officer Roberto D'Aubuisson. In March 1985 D'Aubuisson resigned after ARENA suffered a defeat in the congressional elections, and Cristiani took over as leader of the party. In the local and congressional elections of March 1988 ARENA won 80% of the local votes and 31 of the 60 seats in the Congress. A cup of coffee Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. ... Georgetown University, formally the The President and Directors of the College of Georgetown, is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll, it is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit... Washington is a town located in Rappahannock County, Virginia. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... Cotton ready for harvest. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Left-Right politics. ... The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (in Spanish: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is a revolutionary and socialist political party in El Salvador. ... Campesino may refer to A simple farmer is referred to as a campesino in Spanish. ... It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled Squatting (pastoral). ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply The Right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, the religious right, and areas of classical liberalism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics. ... The Nationalist Republican Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Republicana Nacionalista or ARENA) is a conservative political party in El Salvador. ... Roberto DAubuisson Major Roberto DAubuisson Arrieta (August 23, 1944–February 20, 1992), a Salvadoran political figure known as Chele, and Blowtorch Bob by detractors, was a Salvadoran politician and military leader who founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he led from 1978 to 1985. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A legislative election was held in El Salvador on 31 March 1985. ... A legislative election was held in El Salvador on 20 March 1988. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

President

In May, ARENA chose him rather than D'Aubuisson to be their presidential candidate and on March 18, 1989 he won the election in the first round, gaining 53.8% of the vote. This result brought with it pessimism about the possibility of concluding the peace negotiations with the FMLN. Yet on September 13, 1989 the government did begin negotiations with the FMLN, that began in Mexico and then moved to Costa Rica. On November 11 these talks received a setback when the FMLN launched an attack on the capital, San Salvador, in which hundreds of people died. The army immediately intensified their war against the guerrillas, and 4 days later 6 Jesuit priests and a cook and her daughter were murdered in the University of Central America (Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"), including Ignacio Martín-Baró, a social psychologist and Vice-Rector of the university, as well as the Rector Ignacio Ellacuría Beascoechea, a prominent Liberation theologian and part of the talks with the FMLN. This crime created an international uproar which Cristiani tried to calm down by promising to bring those responsible to justice. A special commission was set up and in January 1990 4 officers, 3 Non-commissioned officers and 2 soldiers were arrested. It has not been clarified which other members of the military hierarchy were involved in the murders and how much Cristiani himself knew about the plans, something that is quite likely, considering the international consequences of murdering such profiled personalities. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A presidential election was held in El Salvador on 20 March 1994. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Roman Catholic priest A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. ... The Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Cañas (commonly known as UCA) is a Jesuit university in San Salvador, El Salvador, founded in September of 1965 at the request of a group of Roman Catholic families. ... Ignacio Martín-Baró Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J. (Valladolid, Castilla y Leon, Spain, November 7, 1942 – San Salvador, El Salvador, November 16, 1989) was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Roman Catholic Jesuit priest. ... Social psychology is the study of the nature and causes of human social behavior. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... Ignacio Ellacuria Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. (Portugalete, Biscay, Spain, November 9, 1930 – November 16, 1989) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian who did important work as a professor and rector at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), a Jesuit university in El Salvador... // Overview In essence, liberation theology explores the relationship between Christian theology (usually Roman Catholic) and political activism, particularly in areas of social justice, poverty, and human rights. ... This article is about the year. ... In military organizations, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. ... A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), also known as an NCO or noncom, is a non-commissioned member of an armed force who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. ...

Cristiani and the ARENA Party argued that their intelligence showed Cuban-Soviet assistance to the communist insurgents throughout Central America, and he and his entourage made several trips to other capitols in an attempt the gain assistance for their country. Whilst in London they were féted by the far-right anti-communist group, the Western Goals Institute, who held a major dinner in honour of Cristiani and his cabinet on the 25th September 1989, and arranged meetings with several British M.P.s. The Western Goals Institute (WGI) was a hard-right pressure group in Britain, formed in 1989 from Western Goals (UK), which originated in 1985 as an offshoot of the US Western Goals Foundation. ...

In 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords ended the civil war. The end of the bloody conflict was the greatest achievement of the Cristiani administration. The Chapultepec Peace Accords was a treaty which brought peace to El Salvador in 1992 after more than a decade of wrenching civil war. ...