Carlos Herrera y Luna

Carlos Herrera y Luna (1920)

Carlos Herrera y Luna (* 1856 in Guatemala City ; † 1930 ibid) was Guatemalan President from April 8, 1920 to December 10, 1921 .

Life

His parents were Delfina Luna and Manuel María Herrera.

Carlos Herrera y Luna was married twice, first to Elisa Dorión. There were 10 children from this marriage: Julia Isabel Herrera Dorión de Robles, Carlos Herrera Dorión, Roberto Herrera Dorión, Margarita Herrera Dorión de Minondo, Sara Herrera Dorión de Arroyo, Elena Herrera Dorión, Lucrecia Herrera Dorión de Dueñas, Rafael Herrera Dorión, Luisa Herrera Dorión de Clark and Arturo Herrera Dorión. Rodolfo and María Marta Herrera Llerandi come from their second marriage to Jesús Llerandi.

Manuel María Herrera bought Finca Pantaleón on August 20, 1849, in Escuintla (Guatemala) . Manuel María Herrera died in 1883 and Carlos Herrera y Luna took over the management of the Ingenio Pantaleón and acquired the Ingenio El Baúl .

Herrera y Luna invested in land ownership, crops and the farm machinery park. The company is now called Pantaléon Sugar Holdings Company Limited and is the top-producing sugar factory in Central America, one of the 10 top-producing sugar factories in America with mills in Latin America.

Herrera was Development Minister and Member of Parliament under Manuel José Estrada Cabrera and took part in the revolution against Estrada.

revolution

The revolution brought a new political climate, a certain openness allowed the political organization of social sectors which were previously denied political participation. The Partido Unionista was founded on December 25, 1919. Carlos Herrera y Luna was a member of the Partido Liberal . Herrera was the presidential candidate of an alliance of liberal dissidents and the Partido Unionista .

In April 1920 the "Club Unionista", "Libertad del Indio" was founded in Alta Vera Paz. He turned to parliament to denounce the abuse committed by Governor Jorge Ubico Castañeda against the indigenous population. Among other things, they demanded a free labor regime from the MPs, as the indigenous people were oppressed by employment contracts under Law 243 of March 27, 1894.

In September 1920, the latifundist Erwin Paul Dieseldorf of German origin turned to the government minister, Adalberto Saravia, claiming that the chairman of the Club Unionista of the Indigenas of Carchá, José Ángel Jcó, had the majority of indigenous people in this club with Bolshevik demands, such as the To distribute the land of the fincas to the indigenous people and to raise wages, united and therefore the servants in Senahú are now on strike. The only way the situation can be improved is for José Ángel Jcó to leave the department forever, Dieseldorf wrote in his letter, adding that in many areas the indigenous people owned their own land and had chosen to live on to withdraw them and to live as idlers, therefore it is necessary to dispose of a burden for these Indians, who only produced what they needed to live but do not contribute to the economic balance of the country. In my judgment, Dieseldorf continues, it is a mistake to give an Indian as much power against as it was given to Jco.

In October 1920, José Ángel Jcó contacted Herrera to inform him that he had been beaten up by some fair-skinned people and taken to Cobán prison. All out of resentment, as our club is pretty strong.

In the First World War goods were of German descent were seized. The Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala (EEG) completed the energy monopoly of Electric Bond & Share . Many goods were returned under Herrera.

For the hundredth anniversary of independence, a Palacio del Centenario made of cardboard was built and burned down.

United Fruit Company

Herrera canceled part of the concessions that Estrada had granted to the United Fruit Company . Herrera was overthrown on the initiative of Calvin Coolidge by José María Orellana Pinto on December 5, 1921 and went into exile in Paris.

The Orellana regime came to power on the night of December 5-6, 1921, when President Carlos Herrera and members of his cabinet were captured by armed forces under the command of Jorge Ubico Castañeda . Before Orellana was elected in February 1922, he had 500 members of the Partido Unionista imprisoned.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prensa Libre, July 3, 2004, Pantaleón absorbe Ingenio El Baúl ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ elperiodico, February 5, 2007 Empresas centenarias: el Ingenio Pantaleón ( Memento of the original of February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Prensa Libre , 21 de Agosto de 2005, El café y sus historias ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ The New York Times , April 16, 1922, RECOGNIZE ORELLANA AS GUATEMALAN RULER; State Department Action Follows Extended Inquiry - Dr. Bianchi Prefers to Live Here Ubico now Minister of War

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel José Estrada Cabrera	Presidents of Guatemala April 8, 1920-10. December 1921	José María Orellana Pinto