Adolfo Díaz

Adolfo Díaz

Adolfo Díaz Recinos (born July 15, 1875 in Alajuela , Costa Rica ; † January 29, 1964 San José , Costa Rica) was President of Nicaragua from 1911 to 1917 and from 1926 to 1929 .

Life

Díaz was an accountant for the US mining company The Rosario and Light Mines Co. This had acquired the mines of the La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Company in Siuna . In 1909 President José Santos Zelaya of the Partido Democratico (Liberal) tried to collect taxes from The Rosario and Light Mines Co. Whereupon The Rosarion and Light Mines Co. co-financed the uprising of the Partido Conservador . José Santos Zelaya resigned and the following presidents: José Madriz and Luís Mena Solórzano were not recognized by the US government of William Howard Taft . Only with Adolfo Díaz Recinos did she resume relationships. On December 31, 1910, Juan José Estrada was nominated as President and Adolfo Díaz Recinos as Vice-President, by the Asamblea Nacional , which is dominated by the Partido Conservador . After the resignation of Juan José Estrada on May 9, 1911, Vice President Díaz became President Díaz and ruled during the first US intervention . At the beginning of his first term in office in 1911 he created a new currency, the Nicaraguan Cordoba , for which he took out loans from US banks and left the direct control of the Nicaraguan customs revenue to the US government as security. In 1912 he put down the uprisings of Generals Benjamin Zeledón and Luis Mena.

Emiliano Chamorro Vargas , chairman of the Partido Conservador , sent Díaz Recinos as a reward for his services as ambassador to the USA. As ambassador to the USA, Chamorro Vargas negotiated the Bryan Chamorro Treaty in 1914. This gave the USA the unlimited right to build a canal through Nicaragua, which connects the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean. His first term ended on January 1, 1913, but this was followed without interruption by the second, which lasted until January 1, 1917. From November 11, 1926 to December 31, 1928 he took over the third presidency to which José Carlos Solórzano Gutiérrez had been elected, but who had been pushed away by Emiliano Chamorro Vargas. Even during this term of office, Nicaragua is occupied by the US military . He founded the educational institute, had the streets of Managua paved and agreed to a treaty to establish the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua . After his third presidency, he went into exile in New York, Miami and New Orleans. He was not married and had two children: Irma Díaz Fajardo and Henry Díaz Rivas.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sergio Ramírez 1989 in Elections and Events 1907-1924 ( Memento from May 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Cardenal Tellería 2000 in Elections and Events 1907-1924 ( Memento of May 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ El Nuevo Diario , October 29, 2007 De origen italiano, cuenta entre sus ramas a un descendiente que fue tres veces presidente de Nicaragua. ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Juan José Estrada Sebastián Uriza	President of Nicaragua May 9, 1911–1. January 1917 November 14, 1926–1. January 1929	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas José María Moncada Tapia