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Fernando Romeo Lucas García

1924 - 2006

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Fernando Romeo Lucas García (4 July 1924 – 27 May 2006) was a military officer and politician who served as the 37th president of Guatemala from July 1, 1978, to March 23, 1982. He was elected as the nominee for the Institutional Democratic Party (with the support of the Revolutionary Party). During Lucas García's regime, tensions between the radical left and the government increased. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando Romeo Lucas García has received more than 111,607 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fernando Romeo Lucas García is the 12,902nd most popular politician (down from 12,375th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Guatemala (down from 18th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fernando Romeo Lucas García ranks 12,902 out of 19,576Before him are Aurel Popovici, Tengiz Sigua, Jin Shuren, František Kriegel, Theodbert of Bavaria, and Elaine Chao. After him are Harry Cohn, Wavel Ramkalawan, Zoran Lilić, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Said bin Ahmad, and Stephen A. Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Fernando Romeo Lucas García ranks 262Before him are Olga Gyarmati, Paruyr Sevak, Robert Webber, Joan Aiken, Claribel Alegría, and Riccardo Cucciolla. After him are Emmanuel Scheffer, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Lloyd Alexander, Hidemaro Watanabe, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Raoul Coutard. Among people deceased in 2006, Fernando Romeo Lucas García ranks 201Before him are Arif Mardin, Pío Leyva, Sven Axbom, Max Merkel, Rainer Barzel, and Paul Arizin. After him are Francisco Fernández Ochoa, André Schwarz-Bart, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Eugene Lazowski, Jean-Louis de Rambures, and Jimmy Johnstone.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Fernando Romeo Lucas García ranks 19 out of 44Before him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Óscar Berger (1946), Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (1930), and Álvaro Arzú (1946). After him are Vinicio Cerezo (1942), Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (1918), Julio César Méndez Montenegro (1915), Justo Rufino Barrios (1835), Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (1930), and Ramiro de León Carpio (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Fernando Romeo Lucas García ranks 16Before him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Óscar Berger (1946), Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (1930), and Álvaro Arzú (1946). After him are Vinicio Cerezo (1942), Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (1918), Julio César Méndez Montenegro (1915), Justo Rufino Barrios (1835), Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (1930), and Ramiro de León Carpio (1942).