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Could a Honduran have become President of El Salvador?

TRIVIA
He was President of Honduras for only 15 months during both periods.

When the Central American Confederation was dissolved in 1839, Francisco Morazan was elected President of El Salvador.

Francisco Morazan Quesada was born on October 16, 1792, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

His natural talents and discipline provided him with skills to be completely self-taught, focusing on military subjects and Law of the Indies.

HIS FAMILY
His parents, Eusebio Morazan and Guadalupe Quesada. His wife, Maria Josefa Lastiri, whom he married on December 30, 1825, in Comayagua.

After several military and political commissions, he was appointed General Secretary of the Government of Honduras on September 25, 1824.

Morazan’s restless career spun out to make him the most brilliant military and political figure of the recently independent Central America.

He signed the first Constitution of the State of Honduras in Comayagua, in 1825, and in 1827 was named President of the Government. His first action was to send emergency troops to El Salvador and after winning the battles of San Miguelito and Las Charcas, he entered victorious in Guatemala in 1829.

In June of 1830 he was elected President of the Central American Federation, and was reelected in 1835, took office in Guatemala City and then transfered powers over to San Salvador.

I declare that my love for Central America will die with me.

In 1839, the Federation found itself in ruins and due to several military and political twists and turns, in 1840 he voluntarily went into exile in Ciudad David, in Panama, then Colombian territory. It was there that he launched his famous Manifest to the People of Central America, a document of great historical value in which he restated his decision to maintain the region unified as a single nation.

In 1842 he invaded Costa Rica, called for elections, and the Constituent Assembly proclaimed him Chief of State. Still, by trying to restore the Federation by force he amassed many enemies who took him prisoner. On September 15 of that year he was executed in the Plaza Mayor in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Two-time President of Central America, Chief of State in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, Francisco Morazan was an energetic and passionate advocate of Central American unity.

MERITORIOUS
Declared “Meritorious of the Country” by the Assembly of Guatemala in 1829, by the Salvadorian Legislature in 1834, by the Legislative Assembly of Honduras in 1839, and by the Assembly of Costa Rica in 1942.

The abuses and mistakes made during the difficult years that followed the independence of Central America were inevitable outcomes in the natural progression of people that had just found freedom. In the midst of this chaos it is always reassuring to know that there were positive outcomes we still enjoy today.

Francisco Morazán founded the first printing house in Honduras, established the Normal School of Teachers and the professorship of surgery and mathematics in Guatemala. He decreed freedom of the press and freedom for thought, and under his influence the Assembly of Guatemala expired the Law of Divorce and decreed the right to make a will; more importantly, however, he was a tireless fighter for Central American unity.

Francisco Morazán , an example of the best of the latin spirit.