Vicente Tosta Carrasco

Vicente Tosta Carrasco (born March 16, 1881 in Jesús de Otoro, Intibucá, † August 7, 1930 in Tegucigalpa ) was President of Honduras from April 30, 1924 to February 1, 1925 .

Life

His parents were Arcadia Carrasco Paz and Pedro Tosta López. In 1899 he married Francisca Fiallos Inestroza.

In 1904 he joined the Escuela Militar in Toncontín. In 1908 he was promoted to lieutenant. He was instructed in the Guardia de Honor Presidencial and in 1909 was promoted to Capitán. He ran the Ocotepeque Officers School. In Tegucigalpa he was employed with Colonel Luís S. Oyarzun in the Escuela militar in Tegucigalpa. In 1910 he was promoted to major. In San Pedro Sula he ran the officers' school.

In 1919 he took part in the overthrow of President Francisco Bertrand . A group around General Rafael López Gutierrez waged civil war in Honduras in July and August 1919. The insurgents included: Generals Vicente Tosta, Greogrio Ferrera and J. Ernesto Alvarado. The military left the towns of La Esperanza, Marcala, Gracias, Santa Rosa de Copán , Santa Bárbara y San Pedro Sula . In 1919 , he was Minister of War in the junta and government cabinet of Francisco Bográn . In 1920 in the government cabinet of Rafael López Gutiérrez he became Minister of Development.

He was promoted to colonel and later to brigadier general. He was appointed Military Inspector of the North Coast, Commander of Puerto Cortés, Inspector of the West.

He commanded the civil war in March and April 1924.

Warren G. Harding and Charles Evans Hughes sent the USS Tacoma to Amapala as neutral.

Calvin Coolidge sent the USS Milwaukee to Amapala. In Amapala, negotiations took place on board the USS Milwaukee , mediated by Sumner Welles, from April 23 to 28, 1924. General Vicente Tosta had promised during the negotiations to appoint a government cabinet representing all political groups and to convene the ninth constituent assembly within 90 days.

From April 30, 1924, he served as interim president.

His first Minister of War, Gregorio Ferrera, holed up in Lepaterique on August 6, 1924 and had Lamani, La Esperanza, Gracias, and Santa Rosa de Copán occupied. His troops were beaten in bloody fighting in Ajuterique, La Paz and Gregorio Ferrera went into exile in Guatemala. Gregorio Ferrera is said to have initiated an attack by banana workers on barracks in Trujillo and Tela in April 1931. The Vicente Mejia Colindres government declared a state of emergency and Gregorio Ferrera was shot and killed in an ambush in Chamelecon in June 1931.

Presidential elections were held in late November 1924. The ninth constituent assembly named Miguel Paz Barahona as elected president on January 25, 1925.

Miguel Paz Barahona made Presentación Quezada, the United Fruit Company's lawyer , his deputy. Vicente Tosta was Minister of War in the government cabinet of Miguel Paz Barahona (1925–1929). In the government cabinet of Vicente Mejía Colindres (1929-1933) Vicente Tosta served as government, justice and health minister. He died in office on August 7, 1930.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benjamin Welles, Sumner Welles: FDR's global strategist: a biography , Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, 437 pp 107
2. ↑ Time , May 12, 1924, Honduran Peace?
3. ↑ Time , Sep. 15, 1924, Revolt Ends?
4. ^ Time , May 04, 1931, Alarums
5. ↑ 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) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Fausto Dávila	List of Presidents of Honduras April 30, 1924–1. February 1925	Miguel Paz Barahona