Eric Arturo Delvalle

Eric Arturo Delvalle

President of Panama · 1937–2015

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Panamanian businessman of the old Jewish community of Kol Shearith Israel who served as President of Panama from 1985 to 1988. When he tried to remove the dictator Manuel Noriega he was ousted and forced into hiding and exile. His uncle Max Delvalle had been the first Jewish president in Latin America.

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