Pablo Buitrago y Benavent
Pablo Sánchez de Buitrago y Benavente (* 1800 in Granada ( Nicaragua), † 1852 ibid ) was from March 4, 1841 until April 1, 1843 Director Supremo ( head of state ) of Nicaragua.
Life
A second Act on the state organs was adopted in 1838 and created the Office of the Supremo Director for a term of two years. Pablo Buitrago held the first sanctioned as the office. From 1841 to 1843 the first elections were conducted, which corresponded to the Constitution of 1838. Pablo Buitrago was elected by three -fourths of the total of 290 voters. On March 4th, 1841 two legislative chambers passed a law that he had been elected constitutionally. His first act he replaced the Francisco Castellón Sanabria used by Patricio Rivas in the post of General Secretary by Simon Orozco, was able to control the Buitrago easier. Buitrago responded to a message from José Francisco Morazán Quezada from San Miguel with scorn and as Morazán later head of government in Costa Rica was, he wanted to make Buitrago two commissioners to the side, which Buitrago refused to acknowledge. This attitude towards the politics of liberal Morazán was taken with favor by the Conservative government in Guatemala noted. In his reign was José Francisco Morazán Quezada of the Liberal Party in Costa Rica President. Juan José Guzmán El Salvador thereupon broke off diplomatic relations with Costa Rica and formed as an anti- liberal alliance 1842, the Confederación de Centro América with the governments of the Partido Conservador Francisco Ferrera in Honduras and Pablo Sánchez de Buitrago y Benavente in Nicaragua. The agreements of the alliance were later put forward as justification for the Guerra de Malespín.
Representación Nacional de Centro América
On 8 November 1849, the governments of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras agreed in Leon (Nicaragua), the Pacto de Confederation. The representation of this confederation was held on January 9, 1851 in Chinandega. Representatives were Pablo Buitrago Benavente, Justo Abaunza y Muñoz de Avilés and Hermenegildo Zepeda Fernández for Nicaragua, José María Guerrero de Arcos y Molina for Honduras, José Francisco Barrundia y Cepeda and José María Silva El Salvador. The Panel chose Hermenegildo Zepeda Fernández as President, José María Silva as first secretary and Pablo Buitrago Benavente as second secretary.