Guillermo Endara

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Guillermo David Endara Galimany (born 12 May 1936 in Panama City) was the president of Panama from 1990 to 1994.

A member of Arnulfo Arias' Authentic Panameñista Party, Endara was named as presidential candidate of an alliance of parties opposed to the military dictatorship of Manuel Noriega. To safeguard against planned vote-rigging by Noriega, the alliance organized a count of results from the country's election precincts before they were sent to the district centers. This count showed Endara defeating Carlos Duque, candidate of a pro-Noriega coalition, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. Noriega had planned to declare Duque the winner regardless of the actual results, but Duque refused to go along. The next day, Endara and one of his running mates, Guillermo Ford, were badly beaten by a detachment of Dignity Battalions.

The United States overthrew Noriega's regime in Operation Just Cause on December 20. Endara had by this time taken refuge in the Panama Canal Zone, where a judge swore him in as president.

In later years, Endara distanced himself from the party on account of differences of opinion with party leader Mireya Moscoso, Arias' widow. He ran in the 2004 Panamanian presidential election as the candidate of the Solidarity Party. He finished a very distant second to Martín Torrijos.

Preceded by Francisco Rodríguez (provisional)

President of Panama 1989–1994

Succeeded by Ernesto Pérez Balladares