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[[Image:Adolfo Díaz, 1912.jpg|thumbnail|Adolfo Díaz in 1912]]
'''Adolfo Díaz''' (15 July 1875 [[Alajuela]], [[Costa Rica]]{{ndash}} 29 January 1964, [[San José, Costa Rica]]) was the 54th and 61st [[President of Nicaragua|president]] of [[Nicaragua]] between 9 May 1911 and 1 January 1917 and between 14 November 1926 and 1 January 1929. Born in Costa Rica to [[Nicaraguan]] parents in 1875, he worked as a secretary for the La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Company, an American company chartered in [[Delaware]] that owned the large gold mines around [[La Sinua, Nicaragua|
After his term as president ended, Díaz briefly lived in the United States. However, he returned to the presidency in 1926, after a coup by General [[Emiliano Chamorro]] (following the withdrawal of the Marines) failed to win U.S. support. During his second term as president, another Liberal revolt occurred. The Liberal forces were on the verge of seizing [[Managua]] when the U.S. forced the warring parties to accept a power-sharing agreement, the [[Espino Negro]] accord. One Liberal commander, [[Augusto Sandino]], rejected the agreement and waged a guerrilla war against the U.S. Marines, who remained in the country to prop up Díaz's government and enforce the Espino Negro accord. In 1928, after elections supervised by the Marines, Díaz was replaced as president by former Liberal General [[José Maria Moncada]]. Afterwards, he acquired control of several of Nicaragua's gold mines, which had been destroyed during raids by Sandino's forces. He unsuccessfully tried to restore mining operations for the La Luz Company, until they sold their holdings to the Nevada-based Tonopah Mining Company.
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