Carlos Herrera

Carlos Herrera y Luna (* 1856 in Guatemala City, † 1930 ibid ) was on April 8, 1920 to December 10, 1921 Guatemalan President.

Life

His parents were Delfina Luna and Manuel María Herrera. Manuel María Herrera acquired on 20 August 1849, the Finca Pantaleon, in Escuintla (Guatemala). His son had Carlos Herrera y Luna 12 children: Julia Isabel Herrera Dorion de Robles, Carlos Herrera Dorion, Roberto Herrera Dorion, Margarita Herrera de Dorion Minondo, Sara Herrera Dorion de Arroyo, Elena Herrera Dorion Dorion Lucrecia Herrera de Dueñas, Rafael Herrera Dorion, Luisa Herrera de Dorion Clark, Arturo Herrera Dorion and Rodolfo and Maria Marta Herrera Llerandi.

1883 died Manuel María Herrera and Carlos Herrera y Luna took over the Leitnung of Ingenio Pantaleon and purchased the Ingenio El Baul.

Herrera y Luna invested in land ownership, crops and agricultural machinery park. The company is now called Pantaleon Sugar Holdings Company Limited and is the most powerful production sugar factory in Central America, one of the 10 most powerful production of sugar factories in America with mills in Latin America.

Herrera was under Manuel José Estrada Cabrera Development Minister and Member of Parliament, took part in the revolution against Estrada.

Revolution

The Revolution brought a new political climate, a certain openness allowed the political organization of social sectors, which political participation was denied before. The Partido Paulista Union was founded on 25 December 1919. Carlos Herrera y Luna was a member of the Partido Liberal. Herrera was the presidential candidate of a coalition of liberal dissidents and the Partido Union Ista.

In April 1920, the " Union Club Paulista ", " Libertad del Indio " was founded in Alta Vera Paz. This turned to Parliament for the abuse, which was driven by Governor Jorge Ubico Castañeda against the indigenous population to indict. Besides other things, they demanded the deputies a free labor regime, as the indigenous people were suppressed by labor contracts according to law 243 of 27 March 1894.

In September 1920, turned the German -born Latifundist Erwin Paul Diesel village to the government minister, Adalberto Saravia, and alleged that the Chairman of the Club Union Ista of the indigenous people of Carcha, José Ángel JCO, had at this club the majority of indigenous people with the Bolshevik demands, such as, the to distribute land to the indigenous people of villas and to increase wages, united and therefore were the servants in Senahú now on strike. The only way the situation can be improved, is that José Ángel JCO leaves the department forever, Diesel village wrote in his letter, adding that in many areas the indigenous people possess their own land and have decided for themselves to withdraw it and to live as a slacker, so it is necessary but make for these Indians, which only produced what they needed to live not enhance the economic balance of the country to have an impact. In my judgment, Diesel village goes on to say it is a mistake an Indian so much power against, as given Jco.

In October 1920, is that José Ángel JCO turned to Herrera, to communicate that he was beaten up by some light-skinned and taken to jail from Coban. All this from envy, because our club was pretty strong.

In World War goods had been confiscated from German descent. The Empresa Eléctrica de Guatemala ( EEG) completed the power monopoly of the Electric Bond & Share. Under Herrera many goods were returned.

For the hundredth anniversary of the independence of a Palacio del Centenario was built from cardboard of burnt.

United Fruit Company

Herrera picked up a part of the concessions which Estrada of the United Fruit Company had granted again. Herrera was overthrown at the initiative of Calvin Coolidge by José María Orellana Pinto on December 5, 1921 and went into exile in Paris.

The Orellana regime came from the night of 5 to 6 December 1921 the power when President Carlos Herrera, with members of his cabinet were arrested by armed forces under the command of Jorge Ubico Castañeda. Before Orellana could choose in February 1922 he had 500 members of the Partido Union Ista jail.