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Osorio, Oscar (1910–1969)| El Salvadorean soldier and politician, member of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification (PRUD), president 1950–56. He introduced centre-left reforms, including the legalization of labour unions and collective bargaining, the introduction of social security, and promotion of tourism and light industrial development, through the Salvadoran Institute for Development of Production. |
| Meanwhile, communist opponents of the regime were rounded up and elections were rigged, leading to an opposition boycott of the 1956 presidential contest, which was won by interior minister José María Lémus. |
| A professional soldier, educated at the Military Polytechnic, Osorio was exiled to Mexico in 1945, after being implicated in a conspiracy. He returned to El Salvador in 1948, after the overthrow of President Salvador Castañeda Castro, and became head of the ruling military junta, which formed the PRUD party. |
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