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Tiburcio Carías Andino (5 March 1876 – 23 December 1969) was a Honduran politician and military man with the rank of Major General. Thirty-eighth president of the Republic of Honduras, constitutional period from 1932 to 1936 and thereafter in the form of a dictatorial regime until 1949. He was elected president of Honduras in the midst of a deep world depression. He strengthened the Armed Forces, maintained the support of the banana companies by opposing strikes, and kept the country in strict adherence to debt payments.