About Fidel Sánchez Hernández
Fidel Sánchez Hernández (7 July 1917 – 28 February 2003) was a Salvadoran military officer, military attaché, and politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1967 to 1972 as a member of the National Conciliation Party. Born in El Divisadero, Sánchez Hernández joined the Salvadoran Army in 1938. He served as a military attaché for the Armed Forces of El Salvador at various points during the 1950s and 1960s. He served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Lieutenant Colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera from 1962 to 1966. He won the 1967 presidential election with 54 percent of the vote and became president on 1 July 1967. Sánchez Hernández led El Salvador during the four-day Football War against Honduras in 1969 that resulted in an Organization of American States-mediated ceasefire. During his presidency, he implemented education and land reforms. After Colonel Arturo Armando Molina won the rigged 1972 presidential election, reformists in the military attempted a coup to install opposition leader José Napoleón Duarte as president and arrested Sánchez Hernández. The coup failed and Sánchez Hernández was succeeded by Molina on 1 July 1972. Sánchez Hernández died in San Salvador in 2003. He continued Rivera's progressive programs and created a mostly civilian cabinet. Fidel Sánchez Hernández (7 July 1917 – 28 February 2003) was a Salvadoran military officer and politician who served as president of El Salvador from 1967 to 1972. During his rule, Sánchez Hernández faced war and economic turmoil.
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