Legacy
Villeda Morales helped modernize Honduras, and to create its public health, public education, and social security systems. He was a key supporter of the Alliance for Progress. Ramón Villeda Morales died in 1971 in New York City.
San Pedro Sula International Airport is named after him. Now one of his sons Mauricio Villeda Morales is also into politics and now he is running for president along with Elvin Santos.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)