Miguel Santín del Castillo

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Miguel Santín del Castillo

Miguel Santín del Castillo (* 1830 in Ciudad San Vicente ; † 1880 ) was President of El Salvador from February 7, 1858 to January 19, 1859 .

Life

In May 1858 Santín del Castillo had the Academia Militar set up in San Salvador, where tactics for artillery , infantry and cavalry were taught. The commander in chief of the army was Gerardo Barrios . From June 24 to September 18, 1858, Castillo was represented by Barrios as president. Barrios filed a lawsuit against Castillo in order to seize the presidency. Knowing that he could not expect any support from Francisco Dueñas Díaz, Barrios had him deported to Guatemala .

literature

  • Erik Ching: Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1944. University of Notre Dame Pess, 2014, ISBN 9780268076993 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Christopher M. White: The History of El Salvador. Greenwood Press, Westport 2009, ISBN 978-0-313-34928-7 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica, Francisco Dueñas Díaz  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / afehc.apinc.org  
predecessor Office successor
Lorenzo Zepeda President of El Salvador
February 7, 1858-19. January 1859
Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán