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Marco Aurelio Soto

1846–1908 · 19th century

Marco Aurelio Soto was a liberal president of Honduras from 1876 to 1883. He carried out a programme of liberal reform, issuing new legal codes, separating Church and state, promoting mining and foreign investment and expanding schools. In 1880 he moved the capital from Comayagua to Tegucigalpa, where it has remained.

Marco Aurelio Soto
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Marco Aurelio Soto. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/marco-aurelio-soto
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