Amin Al-Hafez

Amin Al-Hafez (Arab: أمينالحافظ) (born in 1911) is a politician Syria N, a soldier and a member of the Parti Baath.

Hafez carried out a coup d'etat against the Syrian government in 1963, a little after the dissolution of the United Arab Republic. He becomes the chief of the revolutionary National council of order. This council was dominated by the party Baath, Hafez was its president. To the head of Syria, it led important social reforms, and approached the Soviet Bloc.

The February 23rd 1966, it was reversed by the prosovietic wing of the Baath party, faction directed by Salah Jedid. The faction carried out by Jedid was regionalistic (qutri) their goal was the creation of large Syria, whereas the faction of Hafez was panarabe and nationalist (qawmi). The coup d'etat carried out by Jedid was actively supported by monks, in particular by monks Druze S and Alaouite S.

After the blow, Hafez with lived in exile until in 2005, or it could turn over to live in Syria.

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