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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Juan Bautista Pérez |
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December 20, 1869
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| Died | May 07, 1952
(82 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Juan Bautista Pérez was born in Caracas, December 20, 1869, and dies in Caracas, May 7, 1952, Lawyer, magistrate and president of the Republic (1929-1931). Graduated like lawyer in the Central University of Venezuela near 1895,exerted his profession in Villa de Cura, Aragua state, In 1900, returns to Caracas, where he entered in the magistrature until reaching the Presidency of the Federal Court and Abrogation (1929).
When Gómez was finalizing his presidential period (1922-1929), he had solved to retire to Maracay from where he would maintain the control of the power like Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Nevertheless, the congress reelected Gómez, in April 19 of 1929 for the period 1929-1936, a delegation of the Congress went then until the property of Gómez El Trompillo to ask to him to accept the presidency by another period. Before the insistence of the legislators, Gómez solved then to propose the candidacy of Juan Bautista Pérez, he was ordered to the presidency from April 19, in the character of president of the Federal Court. Finally, in May 30, 1929, Perez occupy the presidency of the Republic. One of the first measures that Perez made, was to sign an executive decree, October 11, 1929, by means of which he expelled from the country the bishop of Valencia, Rescuing monsignor Montes de Oca, which originated problems with the Venezuelan ecclesiastical hierarchy and motivated the diplomatic intervention of the Apostolic Nuncio. Also the totality of the external debt of Venezuela corresponded to Perez to cancel it in 1930.
In June of 1931, still without being solved the problem created with the Church, the National Congress made responsible Pérez by the strong depression that lowered the economy (reflected of the world-wide great economic crisis initiate in 1929) and in that same opportunity, in the occasion of the circulation in May 1, 1931, of the first manifesto of the Communist Party of Venezuela, also he was accused in the Parliament to allow the entrance of the communist ideas to the country. Nevertheless, as much the problem with the church like the accusations formulated by the Congress, was partly product of political maneuvers oriented to replace the weak figure of Juan Bautista Pérez by a representative of the new Andean generations, between which they were the general Jose Maria García Velasco. Before the pressures Perez was forced to resign, in June 13, 1931, but in spite of the presidential aspirations of some figures, Gómez reelected himself with greater constitutional powers for the period 1931-1938. Juan Bautista Pérez, on the other hand, was named plenipotenciario minister of Venezuela in Spain and Portugal (1931-1933). Soon he returns to Venezuela, but as the result of the events of, February 14, 1936, his family was expelled, along with after his house was sacked. He lived in Barcelona (Spain) until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (July, 1936), when he was transferred to Paris. In 1939 he returns to Venezuela. his property, confiscated after. October 18, 1945, were restituted in 1949.
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