Carlos Ezeta

Carlos Ezeta Basilio ( born June 14, 1852 in San Salvador, † March 21, 1903 in Mazatlan ) was June 22, 1890 to June 10, 1894 President of El Salvador.

Biography

Carlos Ezeta visited in 1867, the Escuela Politécnica as a cadet and became a second lieutenant in 1871. In clashes in 1872 and 1873 with Honduras, he was wounded. After traveling to Costa Rica, the United States and Guatemala in 1885, he returned to El Salvador back. During the reign of Francisco Menéndez Valdivieso he suffocated, 1889 as commanding general, the rebellion of the dispossessed Ejido. His last post before he was elected President coup was Inspector General of the Army salvadorenischen.

1890 overthrew the president Carlos Ezeta Francisco Menéndez and besieged the city of Santa Ana. Formally he was in the first year of provisional president. He founded the Military Hospital in San Salvador, opened a school for non-commissioned officers Escuela de Suboficiales and employed a German military mission to reorganize the artillery and train. During his tenure, El Salvador went to war against Guatemala, in which El Salvador won and which ended with a peace treaty in August 1890. On August 28, 1892, the Casa de la Moneda was opened, which on October 1, 1892, the temporary currency of El Salvador, the Salvadoran Colón emitted. The initial exchange rate was two colones per United States dollar. Carlos and his brother General Antonio Ezeta, the vice president were "los 44 de Revolución " overthrown by the. In these 44 are powerful landowners, the origins of the proverbial 14 families, according to the 14 departments of El Salvador, in which sämtliches land ownership and all power is concentrated, that agujero de oro, the golden hole into which rolls up all the money. Of these 44, a part just came back from exile in Guatemala, they gathered on the night of April 29, 1894 and attacked surprising the barracks of Santa Ana and demanded the object of the troops .. He went to Mazatlan México into exile.

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  • President ( El Salvador)
  • Military person (El Salvador)
  • Salvadorans
  • Person (San Salvador)
  • Born in 1852
  • Died in 1903
  • Man
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