Carlos Américo Lera

Carlos Américo Lera (born November 4, 1855 in Havana , † 1912 ) was a Mexican ambassador .

Life

Carlos Américo Lera studied law and worked as a lawyer in colonial Cuba. In 1876 he joined the foreign service of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores . In 1882 he was naturalized in Mexico and two years later on February 4, 1884 he became consul in Saint-Nazaire . In 1886 he married Hortense-Marie Héliard (born June 2, 1864 in Saint-Nazaire; † 1956). The marriage lasted until 1893. From 1885 to 1892 he negotiated with the Spanish government of Alfonso XIII. (Spain) a transfer of the administration of Cuba to the Mexican government of Porfirio Díaz .

On November 6, 1890, he became first-class embassy secretary in Guatemala City and on September 6, 1891, Mexican chargé d' affaires for Central America . In December 1892 he was appointed embassy secretary first class in Italy and then on August 12, 1893 in Rome as chargé d'affaires of the embassy. On November 14, 1894, he was recalled from his post in Rome and on December 14, 1894, he became a member of the Mexican Parliament. From December 18, 1895, he then worked as the private secretary of the Foreign Minister Ignacio Mariscal. From September 27, 1895 he headed the editorial department of the Official Bulletin ( Boletín Oficial ) of the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores). In September 1896 he became chargé d'affaires for Central America. During this time, the Guatemalan government of José María Reina Barrios asked the Mexican government to dismiss Lera because of women's stories. The attempt failed because Lera found support from Foreign Minister Ignacio Mariscal. On December 24, 1897, he became a resident in Guatemala City .

Two years later, on February 19, 1899, he became Minister Resident in Tokyo . As an envoy in Tokyo, he examined the setting of the court ceremony when receiving foreign envoys and Japanese bureaucrats at the Japanese court and was able to establish connections between the success of missions and the careers of the Japanese bureaucrats. In 1905 the work Primeras relaciones oficiales entre el Japón y España tocantes a México appeared in Tokyo, which he had written with Kabushiki Kaisha and Tsukidyi Kappan Seizosho, whereby he was able to draw on his experience at the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial .

From October 6, 1904 to September 25, 1905, after the Boxer Rebellion , he was Ministre plénipotentiaire at Yixin . The Mexican legation resided in the Hotel Palacio in Beijing . He was envoy to the government of Nicholas II (Russia) in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg from June 20, 1907 to January 2, 1912. On August 11, 1909, Lera addressed a letter to Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonov , the then head of the trade department of the Tsarist Foreign Ministry, with which he began negotiations in Saint Petersburg on a trade and maritime agreement between Mexico and Russia. After his stay in Russia, Carlos Americo Lera became consul in Lyon on June 23, 1905 .

Publications

• Cuba mexicana in 1896
• Desarollo del Imperio del Japón 1906
• Noticias biográficas de don Ignacio Mariscal, 1883 - 31 pp
• Primeras relaciones oficiales entre el Japón y España tocantes a México. Tokyo, Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Tsukidyi Kappan Seizosho, 1905.
• Nacionales por naturalización, 1903

predecessor	Office	successor
José Francisco Godoy	Mexican Ambassador to Guatemala City November 13, 1896 to January 3, 1899	Federico Gamboa Iglesias
Ignacio R. Alatorre	Mexican Ambassador to Managua September 6, 1891 to June 12, 1894	José Francisco Godoy
José Francisco Godoy	Mexican Ambassador to Managua November 13, 1896 to February 10, 1899	Federico Gamboa Iglesias
José Francisco Godoy	Mexican Ambassador to San José November 13, 1896 to February 10, 1899	Federico Gamboa Iglesias

predecessor	Office	successor
Mauricio Wollheim	Mexican minister resident in Tokyo June 6, 1899 to February 1, 1907	Ramón G. Pacheco
Mauricio Wollheim	Mexican Ambassador to Beijing October 6, 1904 to September 25, 1905	Ignacio Altamira
Ramón G. Pacheco June 26, 1900–1907: Pedro Rincón Gallardo y Terreros	Mexican Ambassador to Saint Petersburg June 20, 1907 to January 2, 1912 (July 26, 1912)	Bartolomé Carbajal y Rosas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vera Valdés Lakowsky: IGNACIO MARISCAL ( Memento from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Henri La Fontaine, Pasicrisie international 1794-1900: histoire documentaire the arbitrages
3. ↑ Samuel Brunk Ben Fallaw, Heroes and hero cults in Latin America , p 92
4. ↑ Héctor Cárdenas, Las relaciones mexicano-sovieticas , Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1974 - 93 SS 34
5. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/pss/40314156