Miguel R. Dávila

Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuellar ( born September 29, 1856 Barrio Abajo de Tegucigalpa, † October 12, 1927 in Tegucigalpa ) was a Honduran politician. It was from April 18 1907 to March 18, 1911 President of Honduras.

Life

Davila's parents were Juan Dávila and Gervasia Cuellar. He studied law, he graduated in 1880 at the Universidad de Honduras from. He was a lawyer and notary. He was a member of the Partido Liberal de Honduras and the military. From opposition to the governments of Ponciano Leiva and Domingo Vásquez he went to Nicaragua, where he devoted himself to political and commercial work. He was under the government of Policarpo Bonilla 1894-1896 Minister of Finance and from June 1894 to July 31, 1896 Minister of War. In 1900 he was managing Minister of War. From May to December 1903 he was a public minister. On November 3, 1894, he married Narcisa Romero Portillo. Miguel R. Dávila came through the Nicaraguan invasion in 1907 to power and had himself elected president in 1908.

U.S. intervention in 1907

After the defeat of Manuel Bonilla at the Battle of nacaome ruled a junta to which Miguel Bustillo Oquelí, Máximo B. Rosales and Juan Ignacio Castro belonged. Manuel Bonilla had Terence Sierra result and went with this on the armored cruiser USS Chicago, where negotiations over the presidency of Honduras took place.

A U.S. negotiators reached an agreement with the foreign ministers of Nicaragua and El Salvador on Terence Sierra as president of Honduras. Dávila mobilized troops under the command of Tiburcio Carias Andino and Jose Maria Valladares against the troops of Terence Sierra, the troops of the Sierra were beaten and Davila became president. Ángel Miguel Ugarte was R. Davila's ambassador to the United States. From 14 November to December 20, 1907 held in Washington, DC the Central American Peace Conference will take place on which the Convention of the Central Americas was agreed. In Washington, negotiations were begun the railway from Honduras, which was under the government of José María Medina on loan from British and French banks, built to acquire. The U.S. bank by John Pierpont Morgan and Co. offered the government Dávila on a loan of $ ten million, to repay the loan. The contract Convenio Knox - Paredes was named after the two foreign ministers Philander C. Knox and Juan Paredes. With this contract, the Monroe Doctrine would be realized, and Europeans have been forced out of the U.S. sphere of influence. He was rejected by both parliaments. Miguel R. Dávila joined by a direct vote in his office on March 1, 1908.

U.S. intervention in 1911

Manuel Bonilla initiated with the financial support of the banana entrepreneur Sam Zemurray and Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala an invasion of Honduras. In this invasion USMC intervened. In the bay of Puerto Cortés the armored cruiser USS Tacoma anchored (CL -20). There were held negotiations under the mediation of Thomas Cleland Dawson. As a result of negotiations Miguel R. Dávila resigned and Francisco Bertrand was appointed president. On March 28, 1911, the resignation was formally traced to Parliament.

In March 1911 occupied Manuel Bonilla and his mercenaries the Islas de la Bahía off the east coast of Honduras. Davila fled on March 28, 1911.