General elections were held in

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on 28 October 1932. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress. "President Vicente Mejía Colindres resisted pressure from his own party to manipulate the results to favor the

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candidate, Angel Zúñiga Huete. As a result, the

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candidate,

Tiburcio Carías Andino Tiburcio Carías Andino (5 March 1876 – 23 December 1969) was a Honduras, Honduran politician and Officer (armed forces), military officer with the rank of major general. He served as the 38th president of Honduras, briefly in 1924 as constitu ...

, won the election by a margin of some 20,000 votes."Haggerty, Richard and Richard Millet. 1995. “Historical setting.” Merrill, Tim L., ed. 1995. Honduras: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 28.

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