Enrique Peralta Azurdia

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Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia
Portrait c. 1964
Head of Government and Prime Minister of Guatemala[1]
In office March 31, 1963 – July 1, 1966
Preceded by	Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
Succeeded by	Julio César Méndez
Personal details
Born	(1908-06-17)June 17, 1908 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died	February 18, 1997(1997-02-18) (aged 88) Florida, United States
Political party	Institutional Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	National Liberation Movement
Military service
Allegiance	Guatemala
Branch/service	Guatemalan Army
Rank	Colonel

Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia (June 17, 1908 – February 18, 1997) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the Head of Government from March 1963 to July 1966. He took over the office of the presidency after staging a coup d'état against President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, under whom he served as Agriculture (1959–1960) and Defense minister (1961–1963).

Peralta would later form the Institutional Democratic Party, a pro-military governing party modeled on the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which dominated Guatemalan politics until 1982.^[2] In the 1978 general election, he was the candidate of the National Liberation Movement but was defeated by Fernando Romeo Lucas García.