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José Azcona del Hoyo is a Honduran politician who served as the President of Honduras from 1986 to 1990. He was born in La Ceiba, Atlántida Department, Honduras, on 26 January 1927. He studied law at the National Autonomous University of Honduras and was a professor of constitutional law at the same university. Azcona del Hoyo was a member of the Liberal Party of Honduras and was elected president in 1985. During his presidency, he implemented a number of economic reforms, including the privatization of state-owned companies and the liberalization of trade. He also sought to improve relations with the United States and other countries in the region. Azcona del Hoyo left office in 1990 and retired from politics. He is currently 78 years old and has a net worth of $2 million.

Popular As José Simón Azcona del Hoyo
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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 26 January 1927
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace La Ceiba, Atlántida Department, Honduras
Date of death (2005-10-24)
Died Place Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Nationality Honduras

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2005

After leaving power Azcona concentrated on running his construction business. At the end of the nineties he had a heart attack. On 24 October 2005 at 12.30 a.m. (local time UTC−6) just as he was going to bed in his home in Tegucigalpa, Azcona died suddenly from another heart attack, at the age of 78.

1990

During his presidency, the Central American peace process took place, by the time he turned over the presidency to his successor on 27 January 1990 the Contra rebels in Nicaragua were demobilising. Less known is the relationship between Honduras and the US Government covert operations to exchange arms for hostages in Iran and fund rebels, later known as Iran ContraAffair.

1948

As the PLH were unable to decide on a single candidate they ended up fielding four candidates, including Azcona, against the one National Party of Honduras (PNH) candidate Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero. Because the PLH candidates gained 51.5% of the vote between them, and as Azcona gained the highest of the 4, he gained the presidency with only 27.5% of the vote, even though Callejas gained 42.6% of the vote. This was the first transfer of power from one constitutional, elected president to another since 1948, and the first time it happened democratically since 1932.

1935

Azcona spent the years from 1935 to 1949 living in Cantabria, Spain with his maternal grandparents. He grew up there during the Spanish Civil War. He returned to Honduras in 1949, working in his family's trading company. He then went to study in the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) graduating in civil engineering, with postgraduate studies from the University of Monterrey in Mexico.

1927

José Simón Azcona del Hoyo (26 January 1927 – 24 October 2005) was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH). He was born in La Ceiba in Honduras.