Francisco Ferrera

Francisco Ferrera

Francisco Ferrera (born January 29, 1794 in San Juan de Flores , † April 10, 1851 in the Chalatenango Department ) was President of Honduras from 1841 to 1844 .

Life

Francisco Ferrera grew up under the tutelage of the priest José León Garín and went to school in Tegucigalpa . In 1813 he returned to San Juan de Flores and worked as a sexton , musician, violinist, councilor and mayor. When José Justo Milla Pineda attacked Comayagua in the Comayagua department , he reported to the militia. Francisco Ferrera was a member of the Partido Conservador .

Francisco Ferrera took part in the campaigns of José Francisco Morazán Quezada . This included the slaughter at La Trinidad and Belén Gualcho for which he was promoted. He was in the pacification of Olancho involved. In March 1832 his troops defeated Vicente Domínguez in the department of Yoro and later at Sonaguera and Trujillo , whereupon he was promoted to general. From 1833 to 1834 he was Supremo Director of the Province of Honduras.

Honduras

On October 26, 1838, under the provincial government of José María Martinez Salinas , the province of Honduras declared itself a separate state. Ferrera participated in the dispute with the federal government under Morazán to which the separation of Honduras led. On April 5, 1839, his troops and those of Nicaragua were defeated by the forces of Morazán at the Battle of Espíritu Santo in El Salvador. On September 25, 1839, his troops were surprised in San Pedro Perulapán and Francisco Ferrera injured, whereupon he fled to Nicaragua .

On January 31, 1840, at the battle of the Llanos de El Potrero near Tegucigalpa, the troops of Manuel Quijano y García defeated the troops of José Trinidad Cabañas. Francisco Ferrera was one of Manuel Quijano y García's troops .

On April 8, 1840, Morazán was temporarily exiled to Perú . On June 6, 1840, in accordance with the Constitution of January 11, 1839, Parliament called for presidential elections. Francisco Ferrera was chosen.

In 1841 he took office as president. His cabinet consisted of:

• Deputy: Felipe Jáuregui, Juan Ignacio Vega y Coronado Chávez
• Private Secretary: Francisco Alvarado
• Secretario General: Encarnación Maradiaga
• Foreign Ministers: Lupario Romero / Francisco Alvarado / Juan Morales / Coronado Chávez
• Minister of War: Francisco Inestroza / José Julián Tercero
• Finance Minister: Casto José Alvarado .

An epidemic of smallpox struck Comayagua, Tegucigalpa and La Paz shortly after he took office and spread across Honduras.

During this term of office, the port of La Paz, which is now called San Lorenzo , was repaired and an army reform was carried out. In May 1842 an amnesty was issued. He finished his term on December 31, 1842 and a ruling council of ministers from Juan Morales, José Julián Tercero and Casto Alvarado took office from January 1 to February 23, 1843. During this time, Ferrera was re-elected. His ministers were now Felipe Jaúrequi, Ignacio Vega and Coronado Chávez. There were riots in Texiguat, Tegucigalpa, Liure, El Corpus and Danlí . 1844 was civil war and mobilization. On January 22, 1844 founded the municipality El Naranjito, Santa Bárbara.

Church politics

The Colegio Tridentino de Comayagua was reopened, the Diezmo , a church tax that Diego Vigil Cocaña had abolished, was reintroduced like the church jurisdiction. In 1842 the priest Francisco de Paula Campoy y Pérez became the first bishop of Honduras. In 1843 the church property was transferred back and Diezmo and Primicias, the first fruits, were taken away. He decreed the Novena Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias a piece of legislation from the colonial era.

Under pressure from the British consul Frederick Chatfield, he recognized Thomas Lowry Robinson as monarch of the British protectorate Miskito Coast in 1843 .

In 1842 Morazán returned from exile in Perú from the Partido Liberal and became president of Costa Rica . Juan José Guzmán from El Salvador then broke off diplomatic relations with Costa Rica and formed the Confederación de Centroamérica with the governments of the Partido Conservador of Francisco Ferrera in Honduras and Pablo Sánchez de Buitrago y Benavente in Nicaragua as an anti-liberal alliance . The agreements from this alliance were later put forward to justify the Guerra de Malespín.

Guerra de Malespín

In order to wage the war against General José de la Trinidad Francisco Cabañas Fiallos and Colonel Joaquín Rivera Bragas , who came from Nicaragua with the support of Fruto Chamorro Pérez , he handed over his office during October and November 1844 to an executive council of ministers from Casto Alvarado and Coronado Chavez. The Nicaraguan troops had withdrawn from Honduras when Francisco Malespín moved through Honduras and Ferrera and his troops took him to the Guerra de Malespín . Ferrera returned to Comayagua. León (Nicaragua) capitulated on January 24, 1845.

From 1845 to 1847 he was Minister of War in the government of Coronado Chávez .

From January 1 to February 12, 1847 he was with José Santos Guardiola Bustillo and Casto Alvarado member of a ruling council of ministers.

According to the Pacto de Pespire of March 25, 1850, Juan Lindo became president again and Ferrera was forced to immigrate to El Salvador.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft : History of Central America. Vol. III: 1801-1887. The History Company Publishers, San Francisco 1887

predecessor	Office	successor
Francisco Milla Guevara	Head of State of the Province of Honduras September 24, 1833 to January 10, 1834	Joaquín Rivera Bragas
Council of Ministers: Mónico Bueso Soto Francisco de Aguilar José Francisco Zelaya y Ayes	President of Honduras from 1841 to 1844	Council of Ministers: Casto José Alvarado Coronado Chávez