El Chinchonero
Serapio Romero , called El Chinchonero (* 1835 in Olancho , Honduras , † 1868 in Manto, Honduras) was a politician in Honduras.
Life
Serapio Romero was a farmhand on a cattle hacienda owned by Pedro Bertrand, the father of Francisco Bertrand . He was Hacedor de cinchos ( Gürtler ), which became his alias .
Olancho uprising
On December 7, 1864, the arrest of MP Rafael Rosales sparked an uprising in Olancho . On December 10, 1864 Serapio Romero and Jose Angel Rosales came to Yocon and said they were from Florencio Xatruch sent to José María Medina overthrow by an uprising. They recruited the city's residents, confiscated weapons and money.
On December 21, 1864, about 200 insurgents led by Barahona, Antúnez and Zavala attacked Juticalpa. General Pedro Fernández had the attack repulsed. Manuel Barahona was left injured and shot for allegedly refusing to surrender.
The suppression of the uprising
On December 23, 1864, the Medina government declared a state of emergency. On December 25, 1864, Medina gave the written order, which his minister Francisco Cruz countersigned, authorizing his officers to kill prisoners. At that time the constitution abolished the death penalty and civilians could not be tried in military courts. Had his generals Juan López Gutiérrez and Juan Antonio Medina Orellana carried out the order to the letter, all the inhabitants of Olancho would have been destroyed. 200 men were shot and 500 were hanged.
Led by Colonels José María Barahona, Francisco Zavala and Bernabé Antúnez, more than 1,000 Olanchanos marched towards Tegucigalpa in 1865 . Medina led a punitive expedition and had the leaders shot. Several villages in the Olancho department were set on fire and their residents killed in battle or subsequently shot. Many people were deported, many fled Olancho, which drastically reduced the population in Olancho. The capital was moved from Olancho from Manto to Juticalpa.
In front of Juticalpa is the Cerro El Vigía (The Guard), which leads a mountain range that interrupts the flat valley of the Río Olancho. It bears this name because it served as a watchtower for the conquest in the early years . Juticapla extended two blocks around the church in all directions. After the uprising in 1865, an iron cage was placed on Cerro Vigía, in which the bodies of Antúnez and Zavala were exhibited. General Fernández enjoyed the spectacle and had soldiers guard the cages to prevent people from giving the remains a Christian burial or the people from making the Cerro a place of pilgrimage. The display of corpses or body parts as a deterrent was also used by the conservative government of Guatemala José Rafael Carrera Turcios .
On the night of July 9, 1868, 19 conspirators, including Lic. Cresencio Gómez and Máximo Cordón, met in the village of Calona, which was separated from Juticalpa by the Río Juticalpa. Pedro Fernández was in Catacamas, his deputy Nazarino Garay slept three blocks from the garrison in the Wenceslao Cálix house. The majority of the soldiers slept. Serapio Romero expected Xatruch with troops within eight to ten days.
On August 9, 1868, a group of insurgents under Serapio Romero took the garrison of Juticalpa in a flash , killing the commander of Juticalpa Nazario Garay and a soldier. Nazario Garay and Serapio Romero fought a machete fight , in which Serapio Romero was victorious.
Serapio Romero Juticalpa had the skeletons of Antúnez and Zavala fetched from Cerro El Vigía and buried with military honors. In a letter of July 11, 1868 to Pedro Fernández, Serapio Romero describes an alliance with Florencio Xatruch Villagra . He presented the killing of Nazarino Garay as self-defense . The action is said to have been directed from El Salvador. The departments of Tegucigalpa, Comayagua and Olacho should contribute to the overthrow of Medina through uprisings.
As a result, the government under José María Medina sent a punitive expedition. The rebels around Serapio Romero were beaten in Juticalpa by troops from Catacamas raised by Pedro Fernández. Serapio Romero fled practically alone to the north of Olancho. He was captured on July 22, 1868 by people from the village of Yocón under the command of Sotero Àvila near Los Igenecitos and brought to Manto, where an interrogation was started on July 22, 1868. During interrogation, Serapino Romero stated that there was an intention to overthrow Medina. The reason is that he sold the port of Amapala and had a railway built in Honduras, which brought foreigners to Honduras.
Serapio Romero was beheaded.
Olancho was now a depopulated but pacified department.
In the 1980s, a guerrilla in Honduras called itself Movimiento Popular de Liberación Chinchoneros .
Individual evidence
- ↑ José A. Sarmiento, Historia de Olancho 1524-1877 , Editorial Guaymuras, 2006, p. 391
- ↑ en: Hubert Howe Bancroft , HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA | content | c 5 p.79-107 | c 7 p.127-144 | c 8 p.145-164 | c12 p.238-263 | c 13 p.264-284 | c 14 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
- ↑ El Porvenir de Nic. according to Bancroft page 465 FN 43
- ↑ Sarmiento 2006, p. 346
- ↑ Sarmiento 2006, p. 353
- ↑ Sarmiento 2006, p. 364
- ↑ Sarmiento 2006, p. 368
- ↑ Sarmiento 2006, p. 350
- ↑ historiadehonduras.org , EL AGITADO PERÍODO PREREFORMISTA (1862-1876). ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ El País , September 20, 1982, Liberados 15 rehenes del centenar de secuestrados en Honduras
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chinchonero, El |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romero, Serapio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Honduran politician and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olancho , Honduras |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1868 |
| Place of death | Manto, Honduras |