José María Avilés Pareja

José María Avilés Pareja (* 1816 in Guayaquil , † November 20, 1874 in Marseille ) was an Ecuadorian politician .

Avilés was the son of the wealthy hacienda owner José Joaquín de Avilés Pareja and his first wife, who was also his maternal cousin. Avilés half-brother from his father's second marriage was the politician and writer Matías Avilés Giraud (1836–1899), who lived with him after his father's death.

Avilés was a member of the Constituent Assembly for Guayaquil in 1851 , which drafted and passed the fifth Ecuadorian constitution. He was also for his home province of Guayaquil Member of the Ecuadorian Congress and Senate and Chairman of the City Council of Guayaquil.

On May 1, 1859, he became chairman of a government junta that took power in the Ecuadorian capital Quito , while the constitutional President Francisco Robles was besieged by the Peruvian Navy in Guayaquil . The remaining members of the government junta were Gabriel García Moreno , Manuel Gómez de la Torre and Pacífíco Chiriboga . Avilés entered the junta in place of the originally planned previous Vice President Jerónimo Carrión . Although he was the official head, the real authority in the junta was the future President Gabriel García Moreno. He led the troops of the junta who were supposed to defend the capital against the advancing forces of General José María Urbina , an arch-enemy of García Moreno, who was allied with Robles . After the troops were defeated by the junta, it disbanded on June 4 , García Moreno remained chairman of an opposing government but, like Avilés and the other members, fled abroad. After García Moreno's victory in the civil war against the other presidents of 1859/60, Avilés initially remained by his side, but turned away from him during García Moreno's constitutional presidency because of his rigorous prosecution and punishment of opposition and insurgents.

Together with his brother, Avilés supported the vice-presidential candidacy of the liberal politician Francisco Javier Aguirre Abad in 1868, which did not come about after a coup by the conservative García Moreno. He then went into exile in France in 1869. There he was honorary president of the Africa Institute in Paris and died in Marseille in 1874.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolfo Pérez Pimentel, Matías Avilés Giraud , In: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador , Guayaquil 1987–, Volume 4, pp. 35f. (Spanish)
2. ↑ Constitution of 1851, signatory ( Memento of the original of September 19, 2007 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. (Spanish) 
3. ^ Francisco Campos, Galería Biografica. Hombres Celebres , El Telégrafo , Guayaquil, 1885, p. 15 (reprint).
4. ↑ Ecuador: Heads of State 1830-1875 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 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. , Note 8 (English)  
5. ↑ Article Gabriel García Moreno
6. ↑ Rudolfo Pérez Pimentel, Matías Avilés Giraud , In: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador , Guayaquil 1987–, Volume 4, pp. 35f. (Spanish)
7. ^ Francisco Campos, Galería Biografica. Hombres Celebres , El Telégrafo , Guayaquil, 1885, p. 15 (reprint) and Rudolfo Pérez Pimentel, Matías Avilés Giraud , In: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador , Guayaquil 1987–, Volume 4, p. 35f. (both Spanish)

literature

• Francisco Campos, Galería Biografica. Hombres Celebres , Imprenta de El Telégrafo , Guayaquil, 1885 (reprint).