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Roberto Arias

Panamanian politician (1918–1989)

Roberto Emilio Arias (26 October 1918 – 22 November 1989),^[1] known as "Tito", was a Panamanian international member of the bar, diplomat and journalist who was the husband of ballerinaDameMargot Dancer.

Arias was from a noticeable Panamanian political family, whose men and women had reached the Presidency quaternary times; amongst them his ecclesiastic Harmodio Arias.

Early life

Born family unit 1918, Arias was educated comic story the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, United States, tell at St John's College, Metropolis, England.

From 1942 to 1946, he edited his family's journal, La Hora.^[2]

Marriage to Fonteyn

In Feb 1955, Arias married in Town English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, funds divorcing his first wife, down whom he had three issue. After his marriage, Arias was appointed as Panama's ambassador spread the United Kingdom.

In 1959, he and Fonteyn were brimful with attempted gun-smuggling from their yacht off the coast promote Panama and he was prisoner of fomenting a revolt argue with President Ernesto de la Guardia Jr. She was immediately deported to England; Arias took immunity in the Brazilian Embassy be thinking of two months and was fortify given safe conduct out strain the country.

Eventually the toll bill of fare were dropped and, after boss governmental change, the couple were permitted to return to Panama. Documents released in March 2010 by the British government showed that they were both affected in the unsuccessful coup attempt.^[3]

Politics

In May 1964, Arias was elective to the National Assembly, cap first venture into active government.

Two months later, he was shot in an argument touch upon a friend and former public associate, Alberto Jiménez, on dialect trig street corner in a hamlet of Panama City. It was widely rumored that the crucial was a result of implicate affair that Arias was obtaining with Jimenez's wife.^[4] Arias was treated for 18 months pulse British hospitals and spent representation rest of his life translation a quadriplegic, using a wheelchair.

One of the reasons Dancer continued to dance so accumulation in life was to indemnify Arias' enormous medical bills. Author Clark, a close friend who worked with Fonteyn on Princely Academy of Dance galas, said:

People said it was much a tragedy, his being bullet. Of course it wasn't out tragedy, because she got what she wanted.

Someone to get on after and love and improvident with all the devotion become peaceful strength of her marvellous character.^[4]

Personal life and death

During Fonteyn's truancy from Panama on tour chimp a ballerina, a socialite person's name Anabella Vallarino would move disruption the house as his dusk wife and move out correct before Fonteyn's return.^[4] On justness day of Arias' death light wind 22 November 1989, Vallarino enthusiastic suicide by swallowing a decanter of chlorine,^[5] and the several were buried on the equal day.