Terencio Sierra

Terencio Esteban Sierra Romero (born November 16, 1839 in San Francisco de Coray , † September 25, 1907 in Diriomo near Granada (Nicaragua) ) was President of Honduras from February 1, 1899 to February 1, 1903 .

Life

His parents were Lucrecia Romero and Manuel Antonio Sierra. He studies philosophy at the Colegio Tridentino in Ciudad de Comayagua . He was trained as a printer at the Imprenta de Lupario Romero . He began studying law at the Universidad Central de Honduras . He then worked as a printer in El Salvador and specialized as a land surveyor. He then worked as a ship controller traveling in Central and South America for shipping companies. In the USA he studied engineering and received a diploma in and pioneering and civil engineering for land and sea.

He traveled to the German Reich, where he studied military tactics and hydraulics. After almost ten years abroad, he returned to his family in Curarén and Aramecina and worked as a land and mountain surveyor .

With the support of the Sierra Romero family, he became a district councilor of Candelaria, a municipality in the Lempira department, on May 12, 1872 . When the troops of Ponciano Leiva occupied the Ciudad de Comayagua, the Terencio Sierra County Council stood out for its engineering knowledge. Before the surrender on January 13, 1873, he was promoted to captain and then returned to his civilian profession.

1876 ​​Soto government

On August 27, 1876 , Marco Aurelio Soto proclaimed himself President of the Republic in the port of Amapala in the Department of Valle .

Under the government of Marco Aurelio Soto (1876-1883) Terencio was entrusted with important tasks. The construction of a telegraph network and the construction of a submarine in the dry dock of the port of Amapala. He published the newspaper La Voz del Golfo , which was printed in Amapala and was so friendly. Due to problems with Soto, Terencio went into exile in Nicaragua. During the government of Luís Bográn he went to El Salvador and later to Nicaragua. On November 27, 1891, he led an armed insurgent movement against the government of Ponciano Leiva. Because of the support this movement found in the south, the Ponciano Leiva government declared a state of emergency in Choluteca and Tegucigalpa.

The uprising was victorious in El Carrizal (today in El Salvador) near El Corpus on August 18, 1892. The rebels were defeated in el Mineral near El Corpus in the Choluteca department on September 7, 1892 against General Domingo Vásquez. Sierra went to Nicaragua.

1893 Rosendo Aguero government

Under the direction of the lawyer Policarpo Bonilla , the troops formed anew in Tatumbla near Tegucigalpa to oppose the troops of the government of Rosendo Aguero. In the months from February to May 1893 General Terencio Sierra supported the fight which Policarpo Bonilla had started.

The lawyer Policarpo Bonilla proclaimed his government in Los Amates (now in Guatemala) on December 23, 1893.

On February 22, 1894, the forces of Policarpo Bonilla defeated the Domingo Vásquez government.

General Terencio Sierra was appointed military commander of the port of Amapala.

In 1894 Terencio was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly for Tegucigalpa.

A new constitution was passed and Dr. Policarpo Bonilla elected President.

1896 Honduran Army supports Partido Liberal in Nicaragua

On April 13, 1896, a troop from the Partido Conservador de Nicaragua , led by Enrique Soto from New York, landed in Puerto Cortés and marched on San Pedro Sula and Villa Nueva. Another force of the Partido Conservador operated from El Salvador and occupied Copán . José Santos Zelaya (Partido Liberal) asked for support in Honduras and Policarpo Bonilla sent troops. The invasion of Puerto Cortés under Coronel Enrique Soto was put down by General Terencio Sierra.

In 1897 Terencio was appointed commander in chief to protect the government from armed uprisings.

In 1898 Terencio Sierra married Carmen Sanavia.

Presidency

In October 1898, Terencio Sierra was elected president in a direct election for the period from 1899 to 1903, his deputy was General Jose Maria Reina Bustillo, a co-founder of the Partido Liberal de Honduras . The New York Times reported on the US mercenary Lee Christmas, who was recruited in Honduras by Manuel Bonilla. He became director of the Tegucigalpa Police Department and Brigadier General of the Army , acting as Policarpo Bonilla jailer and judge when it was charged with numerous offenses. Policarpo was sentenced to a long prison term and remained in prison until early 1906, after which he went into exile in El Salvador.

He held the office of president from February 1, 1899 to January 30, 1903. His government created a friendly climate for US companies. The Standard Fruit Company and the United Fruit Company settled during his reign .

Manuel Bonilla was directly elected in October 1902, but was refused ratification by parliament and Terencio Sierra transferred the presidency to Juan Angel Arías.

Under Arias, Terencio Sierra became minister of war in 1903 and tried to prevent Manuel Bonilla from taking office, which failed and brought Terencio Sierra into exile in El Salvador. Manuel Bonilla proclaimed himself president on February 1, 1903 in the port of Amapala.

USS Chicago armored cruiser

1907 U.S. intervention

On March 23, 1907, after the Battle of Nacaome , Manuel Bonilla fled with 500 soldiers to the fortress of Amapala, where he surrendered to Terencio Sierra, with whom he went on the battleship USS Chicago . A US negotiator reached agreement with foreign ministers from Nicaragua and El Salvador on Terencio Sierra as president for Honduras. Miguel R. Dávila mobilized troops under the command of Tiburcio Carías Andino and José María Valladares against the forces of Terencio Sierra, the forces of Sierra were defeated and Davila became president.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Robert L. Sheina, Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899 Brassey's, 2003 S. 258th
2. ^ New York Times January 15, 1911 GEN. LEE CHRISTMAS Manuel / Policarpo Bonilla ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 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.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Policarpo Bonilla	President of Honduras February 1, 1899 to February 1, 1903	Juan Angel Arías