Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra

Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra (born May 10, 1844 in Las Piedras , Departamento de Rivas , Nicaragua , † April 15, 1923 in San José ) was President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1902 to May 1, 1906 .

Life

His parents were Antonia Ibarra and José María Esquivel. The first time he married Herminia Boza y Boza († 1894), with her he had a daughter Hortensia Esquivel Boza, who died as a child. Then he married Adela Salazar Guardia (1869-1907), with her he had the daughter Flora Esquivel Salazar, she married Manuel León-Páez. The third time he married on December 4, 1909, Cristina Salazar Guardia, the sister of his second wife.

In 1854 Esquivel Ibarra lived in Liberia , the capital of Guanacaste in Costa Rica. After the constitution of 1869 he was thus Costa Rican. He later became consul of Nicaragua in Costa Rica.

He studied law at the Universidad de Santo Tomás and became one of the most outstanding lawyers in Costa Rica. For many years he was a professor at the Escuela de Derecho . He was secretary of the Sociedad Científica Literaria de Costa Rica . He was expatriated during the dictatorship of Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez .

Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra was a criminal judge, City Councilor in San José, 1885 Ambassador of Costa Rica to Nicaragua. From 1885 to 1886 and 1887 to 1888 he was Foreign Minister, from 1886 to 1890 Deputy President and from 1886 to 1887 Ambassador of Costa Rica to Guatemala.

Presidency May 1 to August 10, 1889

From May 1 to August 10, 1889, he represented Bernardo Soto Alfaro as president. For the election in November, December 1889, the Partido Liberal Progresista was formed, which Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra nominated as a candidate for president. However, José Rodríguez became president .

From 1894 to 1898 he was 3rd Deputy President. In 1896 he was Bernardo Soto Alfaro's agent for Miguel Antonio Caro .

Presidency May 8, 1902 - May 1, 1906

In the April 1902 elections, he was elected President of the Partido Civil . His administration was characterized by a striving for austerity . On November 3, 1903, Costa Rica received a new southern neighbor, Panama had been split off from Colombia .

In 1906 a new code of criminal procedure was decreed. Before the presidential elections in 1906, he decreed a state of emergency.

After the first ballot, he rejected Bernardo Soto Alfaro ; Octavia Garcia, editor of the Republica in San José; the lawyer Aber Pacheco, Máximo Fernández Alvarado, according to other sources also Tobías Zúñiga Castro from Costa Rica.

According to the official count, Cleto González Víquez received 23,422 votes in the first ballot and the three other candidates together 33,032 votes. Bernardo Soto Alfaro and Máximo Fernández Alvarado resigned from the candidacy after the first ballot and gave an election recommendation for Tobías Zúñiga Castro, which was interpreted as a conspiracy by Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra. So he was able to enforce Cleto González Víquez as his successor in the presidency.

In 1907 he was a representative of the Cleto González Víquez government at the third Pan American conference in Rio de Janeiro , where he gave the opening speech. In 1917 he was a member of a commission made up of former presidents who drafted a constitution.

From 1917 to 1920 he was President of the Supreme Court.

Individual evidence

↑ The New York Times , March 29, 1906, Four Costa Rican politicians, all of them officially exiled from their country arrived in this city on the Atlas liner Sibiria from Port Limon The exiles are Bernardo Soto, an ex-President of Costa Rica; Octavia Garcia, editor of the San José Republica; But Pacheco, a lawer and Maximo Fernandez. The Costa Ricans were not inclined to say much. It was explained that ex-President Soto had forbidden them to talk for publication.
↑ The New York Times , March 31, 1906, as the statements made are not only unjust but unfair to the Government I have the honor to represent here as Consul General , I request you to publish in your valuable newspaper the true state of affairs
↑ Clotilde María Obregón, Nuestros gobernantes: Verdades del pasado para comprender el futuro , Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2002, 155 pp., P. 100

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernardo Soto Alfaro Rafael Yglesias Castro	President of Costa Rica May 1 to August 10, 1889 May 8, 1902 - May 1, 1906	Bernardo Soto Alfaro Cleto González Viquez

personal data
SURNAME	Esquivel Ibarra, Ascensión
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Costa Rican politician; President of Costa Rica (1889, 1902-1906)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Las Piedras , Nicaragua
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1923
Place of death	San Jose

[nyt19060329-1] The New York Times , March 29, 1906, Four Costa Rican politicians, all of them officially exiled from their country arrived in this city on the Atlas liner Sibiria from Port Limon The exiles are Bernardo Soto, an ex-President of Costa Rica; Octavia Garcia, editor of the San José Republica; But Pacheco, a lawer and Maximo Fernandez. The Costa Ricans were not inclined to say much. It was explained that ex-President Soto had forbidden them to talk for publication.

[nyt19060331-2] The New York Times , March 31, 1906, as the statements made are not only unjust but unfair to the Government I have the honor to represent here as Consul General , I request you to publish in your valuable newspaper the true state of affairs

[obregon-3] Clotilde María Obregón, Nuestros gobernantes: Verdades del pasado para comprender el futuro , Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2002, 155 pp., P. 100