Juan Bautista Sacasa

Juan Bautista Sacasa Sacasa ( born December 21, 1874 in Leon, † April 17, 1946 in Los Angeles, USA) from January 1, 1933 to June 9, 1936 President of Nicaragua.

Life

Juan Bautista Sacasa Sacasa was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa Sarria, and wife and cousin Angela Sacasa Cuadra. He was a relative of Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa. Sacasa studied 1889-1901 at Columbia University and graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from. He was dean at the University of Leon and besides, he was a member of the Partido Liberal. 1924 Vice President Sacasa in a libero - conservadora coalition Carlos José Solórzano. Subsequently, the U.S. government withdrew its troops from the first occupation of Nicaragua from 1911 to 1924.

Guerra Constitucionalista

On October 25, 1925 Emiliano Chamorro Vargas staged a coup against Solórzano. Solórzano remained until January 16, 1926 President. Vice President Sacasa went to Mexico. Emiliano Chamorro and Sebastián Uriza were not recognized by the Government of the United States as president, it should be the accountant of a U.S. mining company Adolfo Díaz. According to the Constitution of the Vice- President, President if the President is absent, it led the Liberal Party for Sacasa a claim to the presidency from. For this insistence on the constitution of an armed conflict, the Guerra Constitucionalista arose. The Liberal Party got hold of weapons in Mexico. 1926 Sacasa went to Puerto Cabezas and formed the Partido Liberal government. For the Liberal Party at that time belonged beside Sacasa, José María Moncada Tapia, Augusto César Sandino and.

Pacto del Espino Negro

The U.S. government intervened in support of their accountant Díaz 1926 for the second time with troops in Nicaragua. Moncada and Sacasa fought until May 4, 1929 then closed Tipitapa (exit the CA1 to Managua ) with the data sent by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge Henry L. Stimson under a Espino Negro the Pacto del Espino Negro. After the tenure of Díaz Moncada was allowed and subsequently President Sacasa.

Presidency

Sacasa took office on January 1, 1933, the day before the scheduled departure of the Marines. At the urging of the U.S. Embassy, he ordered Anastasio Somoza García, who was married to one of his niece, the director of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua. On February 21, 1933 Sacasa graduated with Sandino a contract. Sandino had made ​​for himself and the Ejército Defensor de la Soberanía Nacional ( EDSN ), amnesty and land ownership and demanded the dissolution of the Gurardia Nacional. In February 1934, Sandino was assassinated by order of Somoza.

Sacasa disapproved of the behavior of Somoza, but could not prevail against Somoza and his National Guard. The Nicaraguan economy was suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, which belonged to a slump in coffee prices. In the congressional elections of widespread election fraud was revealed. Beginning of 1936, Somoza used the National Guard and cleaned government offices and occupied the spots with his informants. On June 6, 1936 Sacasa stepped back and sat on June 9, 1936 Somoza in a coup Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín as a President in 1937 Somoza was even President. Then Sacasa went to Los Angeles from exile. Sacasa married Arguello Manning, a cousin of Leonardo Argüello Barreto.