Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera
Lima (right) in 1961
Vice President of El Salvador
In office
1 July 1962 – 1 July 1967
PresidentJulio Adalberto Rivera Carballo
Preceded byFrancisco José Guerrero and Salvador Ramírez Siliézar
Succeeded byHumberto Guillermo Cuestas
Personal details
Born13 February 1917
San Salvador
Political partyNational Conciliation Party
EducationLawyer

Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera was a lawyer and politician from El Salvador and former Vice President of El Salvador in the 1960s.

Lima was born on 13 February 1917,[1] in San Salvador.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3] In 1948 he chaired a commission called National Social Security Planning Council.[1]

Lima was appointed Salvadoran ambassador to United States in May 1961.[4] He was elected as Vice President of El Salvador in the 1962 elections, and served in the presidency of colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera.[1] In addition to vice presidency, he continued concurrently as ambassador to the United States until 1964, when he broke with president Rivera. He drafted an income tax law in 1964.[3]

In 1990s Lima was a professor of constitutional and administrative law.[5] He was the vice presidential candidate of FMLN–CD ticket in the 1994 presidential elections.[6] He was threatened by a group called Fuerza Nacionalista Mayor Roberto D’Aubuisson in 1996.[7]

In 2008, he was awarded a title of "Distinguished Jurist of El Salvador" by Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.[8] He died sometime before 2011.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lic Carlos Joya (2017-06-01). "Historia del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (parte I)" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-10-07. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Períodos presidenciales y constituciones federales y políticas de El Salvador" (in Spanish). Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Publicaciones. 1980.
  3. 1 2 Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems (U.S.) (1967). "El Salvador Election Factbook, March 5, 1967". Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems.
  4. ↑ "El Salvador". U.S. Department of State.
  5. ↑ "LAND, ISLAND AND MARITIME FRONTIER DISPUTE (EL SALVADOR/HONDURAS: NICARAGUA (intervening)" (PDF). International Court of Justice.
  6. ↑ "CANDIDATOS A PRESIDENTE 1989 a 2014". Tribunal Supremo Electoral de El Salvador.
  7. ↑ "EL SALVADOR The spectre of death squads" (PDF). Amnesty International.
  8. ↑ "Anuario Legislativo 2008-2009, Tomo I" (PDF).


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