Julián Irías

Julián Irías (* 1880 in Pueblo Nuevo, Estelí ) was President of Nicaragua from June 6 to 9, 1936 .

Foreign Minister of Zelaya

Julián Irías was a member of the Partido Liberal

In the José Santos Zelaya government , Irías was foreign minister . In 1906, Julián Irías shot and killed his predecessor in the office of foreign minister, Adolfo Altamirano Castillo.

In 1909 the US government had elected Aurelio Estrada the brother of Juan J. Estrada as president, the members of the Partrido Liberal preferred Julián Irías. In October 1909, Julián Irías decided to support the presidency of José Madriz because of the US opposition to him . On December 7, 1909, Zelay reported his intention to resign when the US government proposed another brother of Estrada, José Dolores Estrada Morales . In 1910, Julián Irías commanded troops defending the presidency of José Madriz against the troops of Fruto Chamorro Pérez .

In June 1910, Julián Irías, as general in command of the steamship San Jacinto , was on a campaign against the insurgents of the Partido Conservador in Bluefields .

In 1913 he was in exile in New Orleans.

1916 presidential candidate

On August 10, 1916, he was a presidential candidate for the Partido Liberal when he wanted to disembark the steamship Equador in Corinto (Nicaragua) from Costa Rica . The Nicaraguan authorities denied him entry.

On September 17, 1916, the US ambassador to Nicaragua Benjamin Jefferson called the candidate of the Partido Liberal and listed the requirements of the US government for every candidate who wanted to become president in Nicaragua. Benjamin Jefferson told Julián Irías that someone who served at Zelaya cannot become president.

At the end of September 1916, Julián Irías resigned from the presidential candidacy.

Emperor Bill's Badman

In a coup scenario from the beginning of 1917, which developed from the Zimmermann dispatch , Julián Irías was supposed to overthrow the presidents Manuel José Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, Francisco Bertrand of Honduras, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas of Nicaragua and to become president of the Estados Unidos de Centro America himself . He was arrested and released on bail in the Nicaraguan Liberal Community of New Orleans in April 1917 , after which he traveled to live with his wife's relatives in Costa Rica . Mastermind to the envoy of the German Empire in at Venustiano Carranza , Dr. Heinrich von Eckhardt.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ en: Pueblo Nuevo, Estelí
2. ↑ El Nuevo Diario December 24, 1999, Presidentes de la República de Nicaragua (1853-2001) ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ La Prensa , October 20, 2003, Cuando se juramentaba de rodillas a los ministros  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Juan Leets, United States and Latin America ; dollar diplomacy , NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER, 1912 p. 72
5. ↑ The New York Times , August 11, 1916, Julian Irias, nominee of the Liberal Party of Nicaragua for the Presidency Nicaraguan authorities would not permit him to land, nor will he be allowed to enter any other Nicaraguan port.
6. ↑ Hazel Smith, Nicaragua: self-determination and survival. London: Pluto Press, 1993, according to University of San Diego, Elections and Events 1907-1924 ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 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. 
7. ↑ Lars Schoultz, Beneath the United States: A History of US Policy Toward Latin America , Harvard University Press, 1998, 476 pp., 228.
8. ↑ The New York Times September 26, 1916, RIOTS IN NICARAGUA Dr. Irias Withdraws from Presidential Race as Result of Clashes.
9. ^ The New York Times April 24, 1917, GERMAN PLOT BARED IN CENTRAL AMERICA ; Teutons and Carranzistas Conspired to Start Revolts in Five Republics

predecessor	Office	successor
Juan Bautista Sacasa	President of Nicaragua June 6-9, 1936	Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín