Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina

BE Carillo (around 1840)

Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina (born March 20, 1800 in Cartago , Costa Rica ; † May 15, 1845 in San Salvador , El Salvador ) was head of state of Costa Rica from May 1835 to February 1837 and from May 1838 and April 1842 .

Life

His parents were María de Jesús Colina Gutiérrez and Benito Carrillo Vidamartel.

Carrillo studied law at the University of León (Nicaragua) .

Braulio Carrillo Colina was President and Justice of the Supreme Court.

In 1828 he became a member of the parliament of the province of Costa Rica, where he was president of parliament for a short time. From 1834 he was a member of the parliament of the Central American Confederation in San Salvador.

Jefe de Estado

First presidency

President Rafael Luis José de Gallegos y Alvarado , who was elected in March 1833, submitted his resignation in June 1834. From June 1834 to March 4, 1835, Agustín Gutiérrez Lizaurzábal was deputy for Gallegos, managing director of Jefe de Estado . Parliament accepted his resignation on March 4, 1835 and revoked his election as president on March 6. With the acceptance of the resignation from March 4th to 18th, 1835 Juan José de Lara y Arias from Salamanca (* 1780) Jefe de Estado . From March 18 to May 5, 1835, Manuel José Fernández Chacón was the managing director of Jefe de Estado . When parliament revoked the election of Gallegos on March 6, 1835, his deputy was also canceled. On May 5, 1835, Braulio Evaristo Carrillo was Colina Jefe de Estado for the remainder of the term of office that ran until 1837.

The Guerra de la Liga took place in September and October 1835 .

In 1836 he reduced the public holidays. In 1836, the Braulio Carrillo Colina government was attacked by Costa Rican migrants from Nicaragua. His government encouraged the cultivation of coffee.

In the elections to the Jefe de Estado in 1837 Braulio Carrillo Colina was a candidate, Manuel Aguilar Chacón was elected .

Second presidency

Braulio Carrillo Colina overthrew Manuel Aguilar Chacón in a coup d'état in May 1838. After breaking the existing constitution, he called for a constituent assembly. This constituent assembly declared the separation of Costa Rica from the Central American Confederation in November 1838 . The Constituent Assembly suspended its sessions in December 1838 to allow a commission to draft a new constitution. When the new constitution was presented in April 1839, this constituent assembly no longer met.

When José Francisco Morazán Quezada and the schooner Izalco stopped in Costa Rica in 1840 after the defeat by José Rafael Carrera Turcios , Carrillo gave asylum to some liberals from Morazán's entourage . These included Pedro José Antonio Molina Mazariegos , his son, Felipe, José Irungaray, his son Manuel Irungaray, Carlos Salazar Castro , the priest Isidro Menéndez, the generals Enrique Rivas and Indalecio Cordero, José Miguel Saravia, Nicolás Espinoza , the Colonel Gerardo Barrios , Máximo Cordero Mariano Prado Baca and the Capitán José María Cañas Escamilla. Later came Doroteo Vasconcelos Vides , who soon left, and Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Ángel Molina Bedoya. Carrillo gave some of these exiles high positions of trust. He entrusted Menéndez with the editing of administrative regulations. He commissioned Felipe Molina, Menéndez, Filadelfo Benavente and Joaquín Rvas to set up a police system, a regulatory system and a judicial system in the state. He entrusted Enrique Rivas with the command of Puntarenas, the Lieutenant Colonel Molina he gave the command of Guanacaste . He gave the directorship of the police to Lieutenant Colonel Pardo. He gave the command of Moín to Capitán José María Cañas. On the assurance of Colonel Vicente Villaseñor he gave 2,000 pesos from the state budget to Gerardo Barrios, so that he should set up an indigo plantation in the hacienda of Las Alajuela with the aim of introducing this plant in Costa Rica.

In 1841 Braulio Carrillo Colina decreed a Ley de Garantías , with which he confirmed his dictatorial role for life as necessary for the development of Costa Rica.

Fall and Exile

The numerous enemies of Carrillo called Morazán over General Pedro Bermúdez of Peru. Morazán embarked on board the Coquimbo in Valparaíso in March 1842 . and sailed with the brig El Cruzado via Chiriquí , Panama .

On April 7, 1842, Morazán reached the Bay of Caldera 30 kilometers south of Puntarenas with the ships Cruzador , Asución , Granadia , Isabel II , Josefa and Cosmopolita . They came from the island of Isla Martín Péres in the Gulf of Fonseca . Morazán was accompanied by 400 soldiers and the generals Isidoro Saget, José de la Trinidad Francisco Cabañas Fiallos , José Miguel Saravia, Máximo Cordero, Nicolas Espinosa, Francisco Ignacio Rascón (Rascou), Joaquín Rivera Bragas , Colonel Blas Brusual, Colonel Alejandro Escalante, Lieutenant Ceferino Escalante.

When Carrillo found out about the invasion , he passed the presidency to Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava, his deputy, and had Colonel Vicente Villaseñor face it with almost 1,000 men. Villaseñor and Morazán came to an agreement on April 11, 1842 in Jocote Guanacaste.

Carrillo went into exile in El Salvador. In May 1845 he was murdered in San Vicente .

Commemoration

The Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo is located between the provinces of Limón and San José

On March 28, 1987 the Autopista Braulio Carrillo , which connects San José with Limón, was opened.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ , Ricardo Fernández Guardia Morazán en Costa Rica , EUNED, 2008, p. 95.
2. ^ Bancroft p. 216
3. ↑ en: Hubert Howe Bancroft , HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA | content | c 5 p.79-107 | c 7 p.127-144 | c 8 p.145-164 | c11 p.215-237 | c12 p.238-263 | c13 p.264-284 | c14 p.285-308 | c17 p.347-370 | c18 p.371-391 | c19 p.392-412 | c22 p.453-569 , THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS SAN FRANCISCO, 1887

Footnotes

1. ^ Es : Presidentes de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica
2. ^ Es : Isidro Menéndez
3. ↑ en: José María Cañas
4. ^ Es : Manuel Ángel Molina Bedoya
5. ^ Es : Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava
6. ^ Es : Vicente Villaseñor

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel José Fernández Chacón Manuel Aguilar Chacón	Presidents of Costa Rica May 5, 1835 – February 1837 , May 1838–8. April 1842	Manuel Aguilar Chacón José Francisco Morazán Quezada