Luis Mena
Luís Mena Solórzano was from 27 to 30 August 1910 and from August 29 to September 23, 1912 President of Nicaragua.
José Dolores Estrada Morales resigned in favor of Luís Mena Solórzano. On May 8, 1911 General Luis Mena Solórzano was the Jefe del Ejército, made by order of the Government, Juan José Estrada under arrest, on May 9, 1911 Juan José Estrada comes back. The Pacto Dawson laid down the convening of a meeting for the election procedure of the President. Adolfo Díaz Recinos received at direct elections 91.21 % of the vote. However, the Asamblea Nacional started on July 29, 1912 Luis Mena Solórzano president. In order to bring their accountant Adolfo Díaz into office again, let William Howard Taft in August 1912, 2,300 Marines land in Corinto. It started the Guerra de Mena, on which Benjamín Zeledon, on the part of Mena, participated and was killed on October 4, 1912. Luis Mena was sick and tied to his bed in Granada. William Henry Hudson Southerland took the surrender of Mena and his 700 soldiers at midnight September 24, 1912. General Mena and his son were exiled to Panama.
In 1925, Luís Mena Solórzano under the government of President José Carlos Solórzano Gutiérrez ( Partido Republicano Conservador ) and Vice President Juan Bautista Sacasa of the Partido Liberal, Consul General of Nicaragua in New Orleans. This item consisted for him by the Liberal Party, although originally Paulino Moreira was provided for this item from the government. After El Lomazo, the coup of Emiliano Chamorro Vargas against José Carlos Solórzano Gutiérrez Mena founded in October 1925 in New Orleans, a Comité Constitucionalista, with whom he participated on the side of the Partido Liberal on Guerra Constitucionalista and bypassed the U.S. arms embargo against Nicaragua. On December 24, 1926 Luís Mena Solórzano acted as an interpreter of a delegation of the government of the Partido Liberal, which I complained on the USS Cleveland on the establishment of the neutral zone in Bluefields.
From 1940 was Mena, the right hand of Anastasio Somoza García, as ambassador to Costa Rica. In 1940 he negotiated a contract for the channeling of the Río San Juan. 1941 Mena Anastasio Somoza García participated in transactions in foreign exchange weapons and cattle trading in Costa Rica. In 1943 he was consul of Nicaragua in New York.
On Anastasio Somoza Debayle January 20, 1968 appointed him ambassador in Nicaragua António de Oliveira Salazar.
Publications
- Luis Mena Solorzano Los arquitectos de la victoria liberal, Apuntes de un soldado, Editora Seville, 1970