Background
Francisco Morales Bermúdez was born on 4 October 1921 in Lima.
Francisco Morales Bermúdez was born on 4 October 1921 in Lima.
Educated in Lima. He graduated from the Escuela Militar de Chorrilos. He also graduated from the Escuela Superior de Guerra and from the Center for Higher Military Studies (CAEM) in 1967.
Was commissioned in the army corps of engineers in January 1943. Morales Bermudez served as minister of finance and economy from March 19 to May 31, 1968, in the cabinet of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. He then became director of logistics for the Army General Staff. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1968 and to division general in 1972.
Morales Bermúdez joined the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces and served as minister of finance and commerce from February 1, 1969, to January 1, 1974, the day he was appointed commanding general of the army. A few months later he became minister of war and head of the cabinet. General Morales Bermudez staged a military coup in August 1975, which forced General Juan Velasco Alvarado to resign. The two most significant acts of his administration were the 1978 elections for the Constituent Assembly that approved the 1979 Constitution and the 1980 general elections won by Fernando Belaúnde and Acción Popular.
In 1982 Morales Bermúdez organized the Democratic Front of the National Union, which proclaimed him its presidential candidate in the general elections of 1985. He did poorly in that election.