Facundo Machaín
José Facundo Machaín Recalde (born November 26, 1845 in Asunción , † October 29, 1877 ibid) was a Paraguayan politician who was President of Paraguay for one day in 1870 .
Life
Machaín, whose father José Serapio Machaín y Zavala was acting foreign minister in 1869, studied law at the Universidad Central de Chile and then worked as a lawyer. He only returned to his native country after the Triple Alliance War , a struggle of Paraguay against the allied states Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay , which ended in the complete defeat of Paraguay and is considered to be the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. Paraguay lost most of its population as a result of the war (around 384,000 of around 500,000 inhabitants). In addition, the victors annexed around 50 percent of Paraguayan territory and kept the country occupied until 1876. Paraguay lost its economic efficiency and its prosperity.
On August 31, 1870, he replaced the Provisional Government Triumvirate (Triunviro del Paraguay) , which was chaired by Cirilo Antonio Rivarola , and also included Carlos Loizaga and José Díaz de Bedoya . This made him the third president of Paraguay after Carlos Antonio López and his son Francisco Solano López . On the following day, however, on September 1, 1870, he was replaced by Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, who now became president himself. He went into temporary exile in Chile and on his return in 1872 became a judge at the Supreme Court (Superior Tribunal de Justicia) . In 1874 he became foreign minister in the government of President Juan Bautista Gill and held this office until Gill was assassinated in an uprising on April 12, 1877. During his tenure, he and the Argentine foreign minister Bernardo de Irigoyen in 1876 succeeded in establishing a treaty on demarcation and withdrawal of the Argentine forces that had occupied Paraguay since the end of the Triple Alliance War in 1870. He then became a professor and first director of the National College of Asunción (Colegio Nacional de la Capital) founded on January 4, 1877 .
Machaín worked as a lawyer in the trial against the assassins of Juan Bautista Gill, but was soon tried and arrested himself. On October 29, 1877, during the tenure of Gill's successor, Higinio Uriarte, he was murdered in a prison massacre along with other political prisoners. The then Minister of War and later President Bernardino Caballero is considered to be the man behind the assassination of Machain .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paraguay: Presidents
- ↑ Paraguay: Foreign Ministers
- ↑ Higinio Uriarte in Biografías y Vidas
- ^ Bernardino Caballero in Biografías y Vidas
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Cirilo Antonio Rivarola |
President of Paraguay 1870 |
Cirilo Antonio Rivarola |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Machaín, Facundo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Machaín Recalde, José Facundo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asunción |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1877 |
| Place of death | Asunción |