caption vicepresident predecessor successor children birth_place president religion party birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
enrique of defense donald rumsfeld to managua in 2004 bolaños during a visit of united states secretary josé rizo castellón , alfredo gómez urcuyo arnoldo alemán julia mena daniel ortega leopoldo navarro 5 masaya , nicaragua josé arnoldo alemán lacayo roman catholicism july 2013 alliance for the republic 13 may 1928 president of nicaragua vice president of nicaragua january 10 , 2002 january 10 , 1997 lila abaunza -lrb- deceased -rrb- file : enrique_bolaños_geyer_2004 . jpg enrique bolaños
 january 10 , 2007 october 24 , 2000 enrique bolaños geyer saint louis university
enrique bolaños

enrique josé bolaños geyer -lrb- born 13 may 1928 -rrb- was the president of nicaragua from 10 january 2002 to 10 january 2007 .
president bolaños is of spanish and german heritage and was born in masaya -lrb- department of masaya -rrb- .
he received his education in the united states , graduating with a bachelor 's degree in industrial engineering from saint louis university in 1962 .
he publicly opposed the sandinista controlled government of the 1980s , resulting in brief imprisonment .
his family cotton farming operations , saimsa , were confiscated during the first sandinista administration of the 1980s .
bolaños served as vice president under his predecessor , arnoldo alemán .
on 4 november 2001 he defeated daniel ortega of the sandinista national liberation front party in the presidential elections and was sworn in as president on 10 january 2002 .
he was a member of the constitutional liberal party -lrb- plc -rrb- until he broke with it to help form the alliance for the republic -lrb- apre -rrb- .
at the beginning of his term he led an anti-corruption campaign against his predecessor and the head of the plc arnoldo alemán politically isolating himself from the influential liberal party .
institutional struggles for power between the legislative , executive and judicial branches resulted in great inefficiency for the bolaños government .
enrique bolaños is an honorary member of the international raoul wallenberg foundation and a major contributor to several universities and foundations including : columbia university , fundacion enrique bolaños , university of virginia and operation smile .
