Federico Tinoco Granados

Federico Tinoco Granados called Alberto Pelico ( born November 21, 1868 in San José (Costa Rica); † September 7, 1931 in Paris) was from January 27, 1917 to August 20, 1919 President and military dictator of Costa Rica.

Life

His parents were Guadalupe Granados Bonilla and Federico Tinoco Iglesias. His brother was General José Joaquín Tinoco Granados [ wp 1]. Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto married on June 5, 1898 in San José, María Fernández Le Le Cappellain, the daughter of Ada Le Cappellain Agnew and Mauro Fernández Acuña.

He attended primary school Colegio de Cartago Jesuita. He entered in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the U.S. Military Academy. Later he attended four years in college in Brussels. From 1895 to 1899 he devoted himself to the cultivation of coffee and sugar cane on the estates of his father, Juan Viñas Cartago.

He was a member of the Partido Nacional Republicano [ wp 2]. On 3 May 1902, he participated in a failed revolt in part, which prevent the inauguration of Ascension Esquivel Ibarra May 8, 1902, should. Ascension Esquivel Ibarra decreed an amnesty for the conspirators.

In June 1906 he led with Rudesindo Guardia Solórzano ( Don Chindo, a son of Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez ) and Manuel Castro Quesada [ wp 3], an uprising against Cleto González Víquez, for which he was imprisoned. From 1908 to 1912 he was Member of Parliament for San Jose. When, on May 8, 1914 Alfredo González Flores took office as president, he appointed Alberto Federico Tinoco Granados to the War and Navy Minister.

Presidency

On January 27, 1917 Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto crashed in a military coup Alfredo González Flores.

Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto convened a constituent assembly, which elected him as president in April 1917. The government of Wilhelm II recognized him as president of the government of Woodrow Wilson did not. Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto Wilhelm II declared war and offered the government Woodrow Wilson Isla del Coco for recognition. Woodrow Wilson insisted on the non-recognition of the government Tinoco, while the U.S. State Department, at any given time proposed to recognize him. The Ambassador in San Jose, Stewart Johnson [ wp 4] openly supported the rebellion against Tinoco, while the U.S. entrepreneurs Minor Keith [ wp 5] and the United Fruit Co with all funds supported the regime Tinoco.

On May 6, 1918 Federico Tinoco Granados Alberto signed with the company, John M. Amory & Son a Erdölprospektionsvertrag called Contrato Aguilar - Ferrer or Contrato Aguilar -Amory.

Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados joined at the branch of the Royal Bank of Canada a special edition large format notes (towels called ) with a par value of one million Costa Rican Colón in a quarter million USD, announced his resignation, which was adopted on August 20, 1919 and went into exile in France.

The Government Francisco Aguilar Barquero let the large-sized banknotes are no longer valid as of September 1919 as money.

The British and the costa rice Malaysian government agreed to William Howard Taft to arbitrate in Caso Tinoco [ wp 6] on January 12, 1922 .. Taft did his Laudo Taft 1923.

The expensive remains of Federico Tinoco Granados was Mario Alberto Jiménez Echandi naturalize and dig on 7 November 1960 to the Cementerio General of San Jose.