Ignacio de la Llave

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Monument to Ignacio de la Llave

Ignacio de la Llave (born August 26, 1818 in Orizaba , † June 23, 1863 in San Felipe ) was a Mexican general and governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz , who bears his name in his honor.

Life

Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos was born in Orizaba, the son of Colonel Manuel de la Llave and his wife Luz de Segura Zevallos. His parents' ancestors came from the Spanish province of Santander .

Ignacio de la Llave attended the Colegio Nacional de Orizaba . The boarding school was started by his father in 1825 when he was mayor of Orizaba, with the young Ignacio only going to school but not living in the boarding school .

Ignacio de la Llave was a bitter opponent of the multiple Mexican heads of state Santa Anna . By joining the opposition Partido Liberal , he chose the stony path of a revolutionary .

The trained lawyer was appointed judge in his hometown of Orizaba at the age of 23 .

During his stay in the port city of Veracruz in 1842/43, his liberal ideas became more and more radical , so that he joined an uprising against Santa Anna led by General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga , which led to the (temporary) overthrow of the dictator. De la Llave's participation in this action led to a corresponding increase in his popularity among the Veracruzan population and he was elected to the Veracruz State Congress in the next elections. During the same period he was involved in the defense of the city against the North American invaders .

When the present-day state of Veracruz was created in 1853, De la Llave played a leading role in the state's constitution .

But a short time later, his bitter rival Santa Anna came back to power and had Ignacio de la Llave arrested. De la Llave was freed by liberal troops on the prisoner transport and he joined the violent opposition under Juan Álvarez Benítez , who appointed him head of the revolutionary troops of the state of Veracruz. After Santa Anna was ousted again from his office, De la Llaves was appointed general. During his brief tenure as provisional governor of Veracruz state in August 1855, he immediately reversed some of Santa Anna's decisions, including the reopening of public schools because education should be open to everyone regardless of their wealth.

In 1857 he was appointed Minister of the Interior by the then President Ignacio Comonfort , but ultimately gave up this post. Because of the increasing dissatisfaction of the political clergy , the military and the upper class with the liberal reform laws, the Reform War broke out , a civil war that lasted from December 1857 to January 1861 , in which De la Llave took part for the official government troops as a division head of the East.

After the victorious end of the Reform War, De la Llave accompanied the new President Benito Juárez to Mexico City and was appointed Minister of War by him, but soon returned to Veracruz to take up his work as governor of this state. Soon afterwards new problems arose as a result of the French intervention . De la Llave took part in the victorious battle of Puebla and was wounded a few weeks later in combat operations on Cerro del Borrego near his hometown of Orizaba, which was soon taken by French troops. De la Llave managed to escape, but his health deteriorated noticeably on the arduous journey. In the early morning hours of June 23, 1863 he succumbed to his injuries at the Hacienda de Barrio . His body was transferred to the city of San Luis Potosí and buried there. In 1869 his remains were transferred to the cemetery in his hometown of Orizaba .

honors and awards

Immediately after the news of his death, the government of Veracruz decreed with a decree of July 10, 1863, that the state bears the official name "Veracruz-Llave" (today: "Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave").

There is also a community named after him in the state of Veracruz and an event building named after him in his hometown of Orizaba .

Web links

• Apuntes Veracruzanos: Ignacio de la Llave (Spanish; article from 2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Panteón de Orizaba, lleno de restos de hombres ilustres y espeluznantes leyendas (Spanish; article of October 31, 2007)