Timoteo Menendez

Timoteo Menéndez (* 1790 in Ahuachapán, Ahuachapán (Departamento) ) was Jefe Supremo of the Province of El Salvador in the Central American Confederation from May 23 to June 7, 1837 and from January 6, 1838 to May 23, 1839 .

Life

Timoteo Menéndez was a member of the Partido Liberal .

During his first term from May 23 to June 7, 1837, cholera was rampant in the province of El Salvador . In May 1837, the indigenous people protested against the government which they held responsible for the conditions under which cholera spread. Pastors also encouraged them to protest against civil marriage. Timoteo Menéndez decreed a state of emergency in the departments of Cuscatlán and San Vicente . José Francisco Morazán Quezada dispatched Central American Federation troops from San Salvador. The protests were quelled in Cojutepeque , Zacatecoluca and Ciudad San Vicente .

Timoteo Menéndez was representative for Diego Vigil from January 6, 1838 to May 23, 1839, Jefe Supremo .

On February 24, 1838, the parliament decided that Asunción Izalco and Dolores Izalco to merge to Villa Izalco . En passant , the Cabildo de Españoles had taken over the political representation of the indigenous people in this place , which was perceived by the Cabildo de Indios in colonial New Spain .

Batalla del Espíritu Santo

During this second term of office, troops from Guatemala under the command of José Rafael Carrera Turcios and then troops from Honduras and Nicaragua, allied with Carrera, invaded the province of El Salvador , thus expressing their opposition to the liberal policies of the government of the Central American Confederation, which had its seat of government at that time in San Salvador.

On October 28, 1838, the troops under Carrera with a strength of about 600 men and 200 horses conquered the cities of Santa Ana and Ahuachapán, committed some atrocities and withdrew to Chiquimula (Guatemala) , where they were defeated by troops under Morázan , Prisoners of war were made and ammunition was captured.

On February 23, 1839, 1,200 strong troops from Nicaragua and Honduras invaded the province of El Salvador, in which about 1,300 men were under arms. Timoteo Menéndez appointed Morazán, commander in chief of the Salvadoran provincial army .

Morazán led 700 men at the Battle of Espíritu Santo, near Corinto in Morazán (Departamento) on April 5 and 6, 1839 and had the troops from Nicaragua and Honduras beaten. Around 200 soldiers from the troops from Honduras and Nicaragua and around 30 from El Salvador were killed.

With the decree of April 22nd, 1839, the circulation of silver coins like the Cuatro Reales was banned.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aldo Lauria-Santiago Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 , Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, 326 pages, p.113
2. ↑ Robert L. Scheina Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899 , Brassey's, 2003, 624 pages
3. ↑ en: Hubert Howe Bancroft HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA

predecessor	Office	successor
Diego Vigil Cocaña Diego Vigil Cocaña	Jefe Supremo of the Province of El Salvador May 23–7. June 1837 January 6, 1838-23. May 1839	Diego Vigil Cocaña Antonio José Cañas Quintanilla