Joaquín Rivera Bragas

Joaquín Rivera Bragas (born July 26, 1795 in Tegucigalpa , † February 6, 1845 in Comayagua ) was from January 7, 1833 to December 31, 1836 Supremo Jefe of the province of Honduras in the Central American Confederation .

Life

His parents were Dolores Bragas de Betancourt and Martín Rivera Alemán. His first teacher was Presbyter Francisco Antonio Marquez.

In 1833 he married Teresa Márquez, daughter of José Antonio Márquez, in the church of Texiguat. When Texiguat joined the Declaration of Independence in October 1824, Rivera was with his father-in-law, Francisco Antonio Márquez.

On August 22, 1824 he was appointed Jefe Político-Intendente Governor of the Choluteca Department, he took office on December 13, 1824.

On March 4, 1829, he was appointed Minister of Justice in the first government cabinet of José Francisco Morazán Quezada .

In 1831 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly for Olancho.

In 1832 he became Prefect of Tegucigalpa and President of Parliament as a member of the Yoro Department .

Supremo Jefe

On December 31, 1832, he was elected Supremo Jefe by Parliament, and the MP Joaquín Aguiluz from Comayagua was President of Parliament.

He initiated the establishment of elementary schools. He sent eleven students to the Escuela Normal Lancasteriana de Guatemala . He had the debts of the state budget paid. During his tenure, the state printing office and a first agricultural law were decreed. The electoral law was modified, now the local and Honduran authorities should be directly elected. The administration of fees for the ports of Omoa and Trujillo was carried out by the province of Honduras. Measures against cholera were decreed. The Cosigüina volcano erupted in Nicaragua on January 20, 1835, which is why 1835 was called the Año del polvo , dusty year, which was particularly alarming in the southern zone and in the center. There was state aid for the ranchers as the pastures, animals and water sources were destroyed by the volcanic ash. He agreed on the Isla del Tigre as the location for a port in the Gulf of Fonseca .

He stated that the children of clergymen had a right to inheritance to secularized church property. He expressed freedom of religion . He promulgated a law for the Supreme Court and other organs of the judiciary. He laid the formal foundations for issuing a currency from the province of Honduras. He decreed the reintroduction of the Edward Livingston penal code so that the governors act according to legal principles. With a decree of June 16, 1835 he upgraded Juticalpa to Ciudad (city).

The Semanario Crítico was the official state organ of the Rivera Bragas regime and initiated freedom of the press.

His deputy was Francisco Ferrera . Since Francisco Ferrera had friends of Rivera from El Salvador near San Bernardo, Namasigüe arrested in January 1834, Rivera no longer had confidence in Ferrera, which is why he let the deputy José María Bustillo rule as his deputy executive in 1835. This created the enmity between Rivera and Ferrera.

After his tenure as head of state, he settled in Santa Rosa, in the Partido San Miguel, as an entrepreneur and mine owner. From 1836 to 1840, he was involved in legal disputes with Francisco Ferrera's protégé, Licenciado Felipe Jaúregui, over the ownership of the Haciendas Sigualteca and Lologuare .

With Morazán in exile

In 1840 he accompanied Morazán into exile in Panamá. In 1842 they disembarked the brig El Cruzado in Costa Rica and overthrew the regime of Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina . They decided to rebuild the República Federal de Centroamérica .

In December 1842, they anchored on board the El Coquimbo off Acajutla, El Salvador. When the Federacion project failed, he settled as an entrepreneur in Honduras and organized an uprising against Ferrera in Texiguat.

In October 1844 the uprising was defeated by government troops in Nacaome. He rearranged his 750 insurgents in what is now the Department of El Paraíso.

On December 20, 1844, he was found by troops under the command of Colonel Julián Tercero in his base in Danlí and captured near the Jamastrán Valley and brought to Comayagua.

He was sentenced to death by a stand trial presided over by Coronado Chávez. And on February 6, 1845 at 11:00 a.m. in the Plaza de la Merced in Comayagua .

Individual evidence

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predecessor	Office	successor
José Francisco Milla Guevara	Heads of State of the Province of Honduras September 10–1. October 1835	José María Martinez Salinas