Mario Monteforte Toledo

Mario Monteforte Toledo
Mario Monteforte Toledo
1st. Vice President of Guatemala
	In office; March 15, 1948 – March 15, 1949
President	Juan José Arévalo
Preceded by	Position established; Federico Ponce; (as First Vice President)
Succeeded by	Position abolished; Clemente Marroquín; (as Vice President of Guatemala, position reinstated in 1966)
Personal details
Born	11 September 1911; Guatemala City,
Died	4 September 2003 (aged 91); Guatemala City
Political party	Revolutionary Action Party

Mario Monteforte Toledo (September 15, 1911 – September 4, 2003) was a

President of the Congress and Vice-President between 1948 and 1949 before retiring from politics in 1951. With the fall of the Arbenz administration in 1954, Monteforte went into exile in Mexico

until 1987.

A master of narrative prose, in 1993, Mario Monteforte was awarded the

Guatemala National Prize in Literature

for his body of work. He died of heart disease in Guatemala City.