Céleo Arias

Carlos Céleo Arias López ( born February 2, 1835 in Goascorán, department of Valle, † May 28, 1890 in Ciudad de Comayagua ) was July 26, 1872 to January 13, 1874 President of Honduras.

Life

His parents were Juana López and Juan Ángel Arias. The family moved to Ciudad de Comayagua. Arias attended the Colegio de Comayagua Tridentino and studied at the Universidad Central de Honduras. He became a lawyer.

In 1862 he moved with Alvaro Contreras a newspaper.

He was for the Department of Comayagua delegate to a constitutional convention, which met on September 7, 1865 and on September 28, 1865 issued a constitution, which replaced the emitted on February 4, 1848 Constitution.

In 1865 he became secretary of the parliament. From 1865 to 1869 he was chief judge of the Court of Justice. In 1871 he was Ministro General in Cabinet of José María Medina. He was Minister Plenipotentiary of the Government Medina at Mariscal President Santiago González Portillo in El Salvador, where he went into exile.

Guatemala and El Salvador had liberal and anticlerical governments. In March 1872 attacked troops from Guatemala and El Salvador, Honduras, defeated the army of Honduras.

On May 12, 1872 Arias was used by the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala as a counter to President Jose Maria Medina in Candelaria in the department of Lempira. Medina was arrested in Omoa and brought to Ciudad de Comayagua, where he remained in prison until 1874. The Government of Costa Rica under Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez attempted military pressure, unsuccessfully Medina government to reinstate.

Arias withdrew from the Order de Santa Rosa y de la Civilización de Honduras on August 8, 1872, the legal person and founded a statistical office.

Arias led on 29 May 1872 the obligatory swearing in of the President and ministers.

Coming in 1873 reached U.S. steamship Sherman of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, the Caribbean coast of Honduras. He brought exiles from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, who tried to overthrow their respective governments. The expedition failed. In response, the State Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador merged to Triple Alianza against Costa Rica, but the consequences redissolved.

As president of Honduras Arias invited all the heads of state of Central America to talk about the possibility of recovery of the regional union. The proposal has been on the U.S. envoy to Central America, George Williamson, promoted and endorsed by all Central American heads of state, to the President of Nicaragua, José Vicente Cuadra, who stated that the constitution would not allow that he goes out of the country.

On November 1, 1873 met Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón from Guatemala and Santiago González Portillo of El Salvador on Volcán Chingo and agreed a Tratado de Chingo with which they agreed to install Ponciano Leiva as new president in Honduras.

Arias called a Constituent Assembly in March 1873. This issued on 23 December 1873 constitution, which should enter into force by publication on 25 December 1873 but was not enforced by the overthrow of Arias on January 13, 1874. This Constitution laid the term of office of the President, shall establish to four years.

Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón from Guatemala and Portillo Santiago Gonzalez from El Salvador were General Ponciano Leiva in the Ciudad de Choluteca on November 23, 1873 counter-government set. From here he launched a campaign for the overthrow of Arias. Leiva had Ciudad de Comayagua occupy on January 6, 1874 to settle Arias. This capitulated on 13 January 1874 and was imprisoned from 13 January to 1 May 1874 Colegio Tridentino. A state court sentenced Arias to five years of exile, and with an escort, he was deported to El Salvador. He settled in Guatemala and worked as a lawyer. Under the government of Marco Aurelio Soto in 1879, he returned to Honduras back. He was delegate for Tegucigalpa to a Constituent Assembly, which issued a new constitution on November 1, 1880. He ran as presidential candidate against Marco Aurelio Soto. 1887 Arias ran as presidential candidate against Luis Bogran, the president was again. On July 23, 1887, he published his world of thought as Mis ideas.

Cabinet

• Deputy: Martín Pérez Uclés, Juan Ramón Valenzuela and Ramón Vásquez Midence
• Ministro de Gobernación ( government minister): Teodoro Aguiluz, Juan Nepomuceno Venero and Jeremiah Cisneros
• Foreign Minister: Ponciano Leiva and Mariano Rubí
• Ministro de Fomento, Instrucción Pública y Negocios Eclesiásticos ( Development Minister ): Miguel del Cid
• Finance Minister Juan N. Venero