Miguel Paz Barahona

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Miguel Paz Barahona

Miguel Paz Barahona (born December 4, 1863 in Pinalejo , Santa Barbara, † November 11, 1937 in San Pedro Sula ) was President of Honduras from February 1, 1925 to February 1, 1929 .

Life

His parents were Isabel Barahona Leiva and Desiderio Paz. He studied medicine and surgery at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala . In 1891 he married Mariana Leiva Castro in Santa Cruz de Yojoa. In the government cabinet of his brother-in-law Francisco Bográn, 1919-1920, he was Development Minister.

Miguel Paz Barahona was chairman of the Partido Nacional de Honduras in 1823 .

In the election in October 1823, Miguel Paz Barahona had been promised by the candidate of the PNH General Tiburcio Carías Andino that he would appoint Paz as deputy in the event of his presidency. Paz Barahona was Carias' advisor in 1923 and 1924.

Presidency

Miguel Paz Barahona became president in the presidential elections of 1924; the Partido Liberal de Honduras had not nominated any presidential candidate. During his presidency, Tiburcio Carías Andino was in power.

The national debt that had accrued from the Ferrocarril Interoceánico project in the United Kingdom under the government of José María Medina in 1867, 1869 and 1870 was repaid by the Contrato Alcerro-King . According to economist Arthur Young, debt from arrears and interest amounted to $ 27,724,682 in the early 1920s .

He revoked his previous governments' financial pledges to the banana companies. During his presidency, banana exports from the north coast boomed. Honduras rose to become the world's largest exporting banana producer. The state was also involved through an export tax.

Paz Barahona granted an amnesty for crimes in the civil war of 1923/1924, and the exiles were promised to return. Journalists and critics from the USA were persecuted. Froilán Turcios was persecuted.

Vicente Mejia Colindres of the opposition of the Partido Liberal de Honduras was elected in the 1928 presidential election. The candidate of the Partido Nacional de Honduras was Tiburcio Carías Andino.

Government cabinet

  • Deputy Presentación Quezada, lawyer for the United Fruit Company
  • Government Minister, Minister of Justice Administration and Health: Juan Manuel Gálvez, Cecilio Colíndres Zepeda, José María Casco.
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Honduras) : Salvador Aguirre, Fausto Dávila .
  • Ministry of War and Aviation: Francisco Martínez Funez, Vicente Tosta Carrasco .
  • Finance Ministers: Ramón Alcerro – Castro, Octavio R. Ugarte, Federico Boquín B.
  • Minister of Interior Justice: Antonio C. Rivera, Presentación Centeno.
  • Minister for Development, Agriculture and Labor: Rafael Díaz Chávez, MR Moncada.

He was a member of parliament and chairman from May to June 1934.

He lived in San Pedro Sula for many years and worked as a doctor.

In 1936 he publicly declared himself against the constitutional amendment aimed at by Tiburcio Carías Andino for the re-election of Carías.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Time , Feb. 02, 1925, Honduran Decency
  2. ↑ Marcelo Bucheli, Multinational Corporations and the Politics of Vertical Integration: The Case of the Central American Banana Industry in the Twentieth Century ( Memento of the original of November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 276 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ache.org.co
predecessor Office successor
Vicente Tosta Carrasco List of Presidents of Honduras
February 1, 1925–1. February 1929 		Vicente Mejía Colindres
personal data
SURNAME Paz Barahona, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of Honduras (1925–1929)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinalejo , Santa Barbara
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1937
Place of death San Pedro Sula