In the latter, President José Eduardo dos Santos won the first round election with more than 49 % of the vote to Jonas Savimbi's 40 %.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

In 2005, President José Eduardo dos Santos visited Israel.

* 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )

* 1930 – José Sarney, Brazilian lawyer, writer, and politician, President of Brazil

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Also involved in scandals has been José María Figueres, former President from PLN and former head of the World Economic Forum.

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

* 1949 – José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate

* 1972 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.

* 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta.

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

Nicaragua's powerful President José Santos Zelaya saw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to undermine Bonilla.

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.

* 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras ( d. 2005 )

* 1866 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician, 6th President of Portugal ( d. 1929 )

* 1920 – José López Portillo, Mexican politician, 31st President of Mexico ( d. 2004 )

* In the early 20th century, Manuel José Estrada Cabrera, President of Guatemala, tried to promote a " Cult of Minerva " in his country ; this left little legacy other than a few interesting Hellenic style " Temples " in parks around Guatemala.

* José Napoleón Duarte ( 1925 – 1990 ), President of El Salvador

* 1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya.

In the late 19th century, the United States government negotiated with President José Santos Zelaya to lease the land to build a canal through Nicaragua.

* 1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

* 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.

In this tense atmosphere, the murder of Vice President and long-time Oviedo rival Luis María Argaña on March 23, 1999, led the Chamber of Deputies to impeach Cubas the next day.

* 1818 – José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica ( d. 1892 )

President Jorge Pacheco declared a state of emergency in 1968, and this was followed by a further suspension of civil liberties in 1972 by his successor, President Juan María Bordaberry.

* President José María Velasco Ibarra ( Ecuador )

* March 23 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.

* 23 March 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.

* José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero replaced José María Aznar as President of the Government of Spain in 2004.

* September 1 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic ( d. 1892 )

* February 22 – Mexican Revolution: Assassination of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez.

** President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.

* November 30 – President of Mexico Ignacio Comonfort is succeeded by Félix María Zuloaga.

* April 4 – José María Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica ( b. 1818 )

* President José María Bocanegra ( Mexico )

** Roberto María Ortiz, President of Argentina ( d. 1942 )

María Eva Duarte de Perón (; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952 ) was an Argentine political leader, the second wife of President Juan Perón ( 1895 – 1974 ) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

This year, the former Spanish President José María Aznar López ( conservative ), passed a Law ( 57 / 2003 ) to modernize organic rules of those cities which had more than 250, 000 inhabitants, and other important cities ( like capital cities of provinces with at least 175, 000 inhabitants ).

* Floreana ( Charles or Santa María ) Island – It was named after Juan José Flores, the first President of Ecuador, during whose administration the government of Ecuador took possession of the archipelago.

* José María Bocanegra, lawyer, interim President of Mexico in December 1829, minister in the national government 1833-44