Enrique \u00c1lvarez C\u00f3rdova (March 4, 1930 \u0096 November 27, 1980) was a politician and statesman of El Salvador. He studied economics and agriculture at Rutgers University in the US. In 1953 his father, Don Enrique \u00c1lvarez Drews, bought the hacienda \u0084El Jobo.\u0093 Later on, under the direction of Enrique Alvarez C\u00f3rdova, it became a highly productive, model agricultural farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the transition to modern, technological agriculture in El Salvador, Cordova was one of the first to support better working conditions, childcare, and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enrique \u00c1lvarez C\u00f3rdova was Director of the Banco Capitalizador, President of the Compa\u00f1\u00eda Salvadore\u00f1a de Caf\u00e9, S.A., directing member of the Departamento Nacional del Caf\u00e9, and from 1968 to 1974 he was the Minister for Agriculture and Cattle. During this time period he was also the chairperson for the National Agricultural Reform Commission. The goal of the Reform, that was never realized, was to better distribute earnings and end corruption.\nIn 1979, Enrique Alvarez returned as the country\u0092s Secretary of Commerce at the same time as the first military coup. He returned with the hope that the new military regime would realize the socioeconomic benefits of the reforms. However, Enrique Alvarez had to resign shortly afterwards and fled to Mexico, but returned to El Salvador in 1980, where he was murdered on November 28, 1980 by extreme rights militias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enrique Alvarez C\u00f3rdovas devoted his life to bettering the lives of the farmers in El Salvador. He advocated for them as a politician with his agricultural reforms, and as the President of the Democratic-Revolutionary Front of El Salvador (FDR). In 1981 he was posthumously awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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