Andrés del Valle Rodríguez

Andrés del Valle Rodríguez, 1880

Andrés del Valle Rodríguez (born November 30, 1833 in Santa Ana , El Salvador , † June 28, 1888 in San Salvador , El Salvador) was President of El Salvador from January 12, 1876 to July 19, 1876 .

Life

His father Fernando del Valle was born in Santander and had made a fortune in trade and agriculture. Andrés del Valle was a member of the Constituent Assembly from 1872 to 1873. In 1874 he became Senator for the Department of Santa Ana in 1874. In 1875 he was Deputy Chairman of the Senate and Chairman of Parliament. On March 1, 1875, parliament called for elections on the first Sunday in December 1875.

Andres Valle was elected for the term of office from February 1, 1876 to February 1, 1880. His deputy was the previous President Santiago González Portillo . On the same day, a US $ half million forced bond was taken out.

Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was suspicious of Santiago Gonzalez's support for political refugees from Guatemala, particularly as he suspected Ponciano Leiva in Honduras of attempting to overthrow him.

Barrios informed Valle that if he continued on this course, the Guatemalan government would support José María Medina in Honduras to overthrow Ponciano Leiva.

Conference at the Volcán Chingo

The government in El Salvador affirmed the benevolence of Gonzalez and a conference was agreed on at the Volcán Chingo , at which an agreement was signed on February 15, 1876 under the mediation of Marco Aurelio Soto Martínez .

Barrios was convinced that the real ruler in El Salvador was Gonzalez, whom he accused of hypocrisy and treason in public speeches.

Guerra de Barrios

Barrios had 1,500 soldiers attacked Honduras and led an army himself that invaded Salvador from the west without a declaration of war.

On March 20, 1876, the Guatemalan War Minister Jose Maria Samayoa declared all official relations with El Salvador to be over. He claimed that troops from El Salvador invaded Guatemala on March 27, 1876 , declared war and gave Barrio absolute power to defend the dignity of Guatemala. The government of El Salvador declared on March 26, 1876 that the friendship and assistance treaty with Guatemala of January 24, 1872 was no longer in force. Barrios plan was to attack El Salvador from the west directly from Guatemala with an army led by him and at the same time attack the eastern departments of San Miguel and La Union from Honduras. The Mexican General Jose Lopez Uraga was in the garrison of Jutiapa stationed at the arsenal to guard. At that time, troops from El Salvador unsuccessfully attacked an isolated position on the border. That moved Barrios to order Uraga to bring the equipment to Chingo while he himself began the attack on El Salvador. The barrios had Chalchuapa occupied. The headquarters of El Salvador was in Santa Ana. Barrios besieged Ahuachapan with about 8,000 soldiers, Uraga commanded about 1,500 soldiers in Chalchuapa and only a handful of soldiers remained in Chingo.

The Guatemalan forces that occupied Apaneca were pushed back. When they returned on April 15, 1856, they were engaged in a fight from eight in the morning until nightfall, until they withdrew to Atiquizaya with heavy losses.

In the east, General Gregorio Solares had the troops of Generals Brioso, Delgado, Sanchez and Espinosa defeated at Pasaquina from April 17 to 19, 1876 and now controlled the departments of San Miguel and La Union threatened the departments of San Vicente and Usulután and even the official ones Official residence of President Valle, which cut off the Salvadorean government from important resources. About 800 soldiers of the Salvadoran troops were killed and they withdrew to San Miguel , where 200 more arrived. Solares occupied San Miguel and La Union. There were enough soldiers to defend Ciudad San Vicente , but the government of El Salvador ordered the garrison to rally in the capital.

In the west, fighting during Semana Santa in Ahuachapan had decimated the army of El Salvador to 2,600 and in Santa Ana to barely 3,500 soldiers. After Easter there were 900 soldiers who tried in vain to take Chalchuapa.

Barrios had 900 bombs dropped during the siege of Atiquizaya and then marched on Ahuachapan and the following day to Chalchuapa, where peace negotiations were taking place. A peace treaty was signed on April 25, 1876 and ratified by the parliaments on April 26, 1876. The peace was conditioned by a condicio-sine-qua-non formula of a complete replacement of the government of El Salvador. President Valle had to resign.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA | content | c 5 p.79-107 | c 8 p.145-164 | c12 p.238-263 | c 14 p.285-308 | c17 p.347-370 | c18 p.371-391 | c19 p.392-412 , THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS SAN FRANCISCO, 1887 p. 401 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Santiago González Portillo	President of El Salvador January 12, 1876-19. July 1876	Rafael Zaldívar