Tomás Frías Ametller

Tomás Frías Ametller ( born December 21, 1804 in Potosi, † May 10, 1884 in Florence) was from 1872 to 1873 and from 1874 to 1876 president of Bolivia.

Life

Tomás Frías was born into a Latifundistenfamilie. His parents were José María Alejandra Frías and Ametller. Frías was Foreign Minister under the government of José Ballivián and was a member of the Partido Liberal. He was elected by Parliament as President when the dictator Agustín Morales died in November 1872. Under Frías ' government direct presidential elections were held in May 1873 took Adolfo Ballivián, the son of José Ballivián, president. After Adolfo Ballivián ill with cancer and died in February 1874, Frías was initially a caretaker president again. In August 1874, the Parliament in Sucre Frías continued unconstitutional until the end of the regular period of government (that would have been in 1877 ) as president.

1874 70 -year-old president signed an economic agreement with Chile, which indemnified Chilean citizens and their companies for 25 years of taxes in Bolivia. In turn, Chile granted Bolivia's citizens and their societies in Chile tax liberty. Of the relevant laws benefited Chilean companies that were able to reduce tax-free to a large extent the wealth of the (then) Bolivian Pacific Coast; acting in Chile Bolivian companies there were hardly any contrast. Frías was overthrown by Hilarion Daza on May 4, 1876 a coup.

1877, the infrastructure of the coast around the Región de Antofagasta was destroyed by a tsunami. Hilarion Daza explained Grosolé beginning 1878, the clause which admitted the tax exemption, null and void and called on the Chilean companies, taxes retroactively order based to the year 1874. As these companies, supported by the Chilean government, which refused payment, plants were confiscated and offered in January 1879 auction. This led to the Salpeter. After his defeat Bolivia had to hand in the peace treaty of 1884, the lucrative Pacific provinces Región de Antofagasta and Atacama in Chile.

Alsop & Co

The U.S. firm Alsop & Co in 1876 had replaced a loan from the Brazilian citizen Pedro López Gama over 835,000 bolivianos to the Bolivian government under Tomás Frías, served for the guano deposits in Arica as collateral. Arica was after the saltpeter in Chile, which is why the U.S. companies the money demanded in 1909 by the Chilean government, the U.S. ambassador Thomas Cleland Dawson left Chile and a process to the Permanent Court of Arbitration was initiated.

At the provincial Tomás Frías Frías recalls.