Handbook Prado Ugarteche

Manual Prado Ugarteche (Lima, April 21st 1889 - Paris, August 15th 1967), Engineer, Banking and Peruvian Politician , was president Peru twice, December 8th 1939 with the July 28th 1945 and July 28th 1956 with the July 18th 1962.

Youths

Manuel Prado was born in 1889 in a patrician family from Lima. His/her father, Mariano Ignacio Prado, was president of Peru. His/her older brother is the Philosophe Javier Prado there Ugarteche. Another brother, Leoncio Prado, were a military hero. He follows higher learning to the school of Engineers of Peru (current the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), and leaves there with the diploma for the occupation of Civil engineer. From 1915 to 1919, Prado is professor with the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. In 1918, it Marie with Enriqueta Garland, of which he has a son and a girl. In 1919, it is elected appointed party Partido of Unión Parlamentaria to the Congress during the government of Augusto B. Leguía. But he is opposed to the dictatorship of this last and must exile himself in Paris of 1921 to 1932. Of return to Peru, it chairs the Banco Exchange of Held del Perú , the Peruvian central bank, of 1934 with 1939.

First presidency

In 1939, with the head of Coalición Conservadora, Prado 78% of the voices obtain and succeed Oscar R. Benavides with the presidency of Peru. It allows the return to the legality of the Partido Aprista Peruano (left Peruvian aprist) which supported it.

In 1941, Peru is engaged in a short armed conflict with the equator which ensures sovereignty to him on 200.000 km ² additional of Amazon forest. It signs in 1942 the Protocole of Rio de Janeiro which defines the borders between the two countries. During the Second world war the country is aligned clearly on the Alliés. Peru is the first South American nation to declare the war with the Axe but it took part in the war only in 1945.

During its government the country manages to asphalt completely its portion of the Pan-American Highway.

Prado finishes its mandate in 1945 and Jose Luis Bustamante Rivero succeeds to him there. It leaves to settle a few years with Paris, this time of full sound liking.

Second presidency

It returns to Peru in 1955 to take part in the presidential elections of 1956, which it gains with the support of the American revolutionary popular Alliance which again had been prohibited by the preceding government of Manuel A. Odría. It gains the elections vis-a-vis Fernando Belaúnde Terry which obtained 45% of the voices. He becomes president of the Republic for the second time

Prado announces that it will subject to the congress lately elected a law to legalize American revolutionary popular Alliance again. The law is adopted and the founder of American revolutionary popular Alliance, Víctor Raúl Haya of Torre can thus return of his exile abroad.

Its economic policy oscillates between on the one hand the liberal experimentation (suppression of the subsidies to fuels and the food products, which causes strikes and disorders) and on the other hand the control of the outflows of capital and the beginning of the nationalization of the oil production.

In 1958, it obtains Catholic church which it cancels its marriage with Enriqueta Garland to marry in second weddings Clorinda Málaga.

In 1961, he is the first Head of foreign State to go in visit the Japan since the Second world war.

Exile in France

Prado does not finish its second mandate with a margin of a few days, because it is reversed by a military Coup d'etat the July 18th 1962 leads by Ricardo Pérez Godoy which aims at preventing that the aprist Víctor Raúl Haya of Torre, arrived at the head of the elections of the June 10th does not reach the capacity. It must be exiled again in Paris, where it dies five years later, the August 15th 1967.

Manuel Prado Ugarteche published various scientific work on the Infinitesimal calculus and the Hydrostatique.

External bonds

Speeches addressed to the Congress of Peru
Short biography

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