José Azcona del Hoyo

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

1 Career
2 President
3 Post-presidency
4 Trivia
5 External link

[edit] Career

Azcona spent the years from 1935 to 1949 living in Cantabria, Spain with his maternal grandparents. He then illegally crossed the frontier into Portugal in order to escape being conscripted into the Spanish army. He then went to study in the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) before graduating in civil engineering from the University of Monterrey in Mexico. Fernando Lardizabal should have been the President of Honduras as Azcona was born in Spain and could not constitutionally serve as President. Azcona assumed presidency with a false birth certificate.

[edit] President

As the PLH were unable to decide on a single candidate so they ended up fielding four candidates, including Azcona, against the one National Party of Honduras (PNH) candidate Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero. Because between them the PLH candidates gained 51.5% of the vote, 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. Azcona has been the best president that Honduras has had ever.

[edit] Post-presidency

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

[edit] Trivia

Azcona's last trip was to Pensacola, Florida where he met with his wife's (Miriam Bocock de Azcona) side of the family before he died.
His son: Jose Azcona Bocock is currently an elected Congressman.
His daughter: Elizabeth Azcona Bocock is currently the Minister of Industry and Commerce.