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Guillermo David Endara Galimany (born
12 May 1936 in
Panama City) was the
president of Panama from
1989 to
1994.
Endara's middle-class parents had been allies of
Authentic Panameñista Party founder
Arnulfo Arias, and the family went into exile after Arias was overthrown in a 1941 coup. He went to school in Argentina and a military school in Los Angeles, and was later aboe to return and attend the University of Panama Law School, graduating first in his class. He received a subsequent LLM degree from New York University. He returned to Panama in 1963 to practice law, served two terms in the Panamanian National Assembly and taught law at the university. In 1968 Endara served as Arias's minister of planning and economic policy in a renued Arias administration. When Arias was overthrown again in October 1968, Endara went underground, was jailed in 1971, and joined the deposed executive in exile until the ban on Arias was lifted. He remained politically engaged and when Arias died in 1988, Endara became a leading opposition figure.
In the Panamanian presidential election of 1989, Endara ran as the candidate of an alliance of parties opposed to the
military dictatorship of
Manuel Noriega. To safeguard against anticipated vote-rigging by Noriega, the alliance organized a count of results from the country's election precincts before they were sent to the district centers. This count showed Endara defeating
Carlos Duque, candidate of a pro-Noriega coalition, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. Noriega had planned to declare Duque the winner regardless of the actual results, but Duque refused to go along. The next day, Endara and one of his running mates, Guillermo Ford, were badly beaten by a detachment of
Dignity Battalions.
The
United States overthrew Noriega's regime in
Operation Just Cause on
December 20 1989. Endara had by this time taken refuge in the
Panama Canal Zone, where a judge swore him in as president.
Endara is noted for staging a public hunger strike to call attention to poverty and homelessness left in the wake of the the Noriega years and destruction caused by the U.S. invasion. He visited then U.S. President George Bush, pressing for $1 billion in emergency relief aid and cooperative measures to curtail the Panamanian narcotics trade. He restored confidence in the banking industry, reduced unemployment, and struggled to address narcotrafficking and violent crime. His administration has faced criticism as dominated by wealthy businessmen or by initially overshadowing U.S. influence.
In later years, Endara distanced himself from the party on account of differences of opinion with party leader
Mireya Moscoso, Arias' widow. He ran in the
2004 Panamanian presidential election as the candidate of the
Solidarity Party. He finished second to
Martín Torrijos.
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