817.00/4161: Telegram
Doctor Rodolfo Espinosa to the Secretary of State
[Received December 2—midnight.]
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that His Excellency, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, Vice President of Nicaragua, on this day in this city, pursuant to the Constitution, assumed the Presidency of the Republic and organized his Cabinet as follows:
- Minister for Foreign Affairs: Dr. Rodolfo Espinosa. Under Secretary: Dr. Geronimo Ramirez Brown.
- Gobernacion: Dr. Leonardo Arguello. Under Secretary: Dr. Antonio Flores [Vega].
- Treasury: Dr. Arturo Ortega. Under Secretary: Don Julio Portocarrero.
- War and Marine: Gen. José Maria Moncada. Under Secretary: Col. Arturo Baca.
- Fomento: Dr. Onofre Sandoval. Under Secretary: Dr. Ramiro Gámez.
- Public Instruction: Dr. Modesto Armijo. Under Secretary: Don Hernan Robleto.
Your Excellency will remember that the constitutional order created by the elections of October 1924 was expressly recognized by your Government after the President, Don Carlos Solorzano, and the Vice President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, who were sworn by the National Congress, took possession of their high offices on January 1, 1925, in the presence of the Honorable Chargé d’Affaires of your Republic, Mr. Thurston. The lawful regime that had been recognized was interrupted by the coup d’état initiated by Gen. Emiliano Chamorro on October 25, 1925, and culminated when the latter on January 16, last, assumed the Executive power which he later transferred to Señor Sebastian Uriza who, in turn and in the same unconstitutional manner, transferred it to Don Adolfo Diaz. Constitutional order having been restored in my country with the installation of the legitimate government of His Excellency, Dr. Sacasa, this office has reason to believe that by the same fact the cordial friendship and official relations that have united our peoples and Governments are to be considered as restored, and that the recognition granted Señor Adolfo Diaz by your Government is no obstacle since I must assume that that recognition was due to the interpretation of it by Your Excellency’s Government that in the absence of the President and Vice President the exercise of the Executive power corresponds to the first [Page 809] designado elected by the Congress, for, if it was not so held, the Constitution of the country and the Central American treaties of Washington would be fatally injured.
It affords me satisfaction to state that the constitutionalist army, in arms against the de facto regime, has recognized the legitimate authority of His Excellency President Sacasa and has placed itself under his orders to maintain it and to defend the institutions of the Republic. The only remaining obstacle to peace is Don Adolf o Diaz who in agreement with General Chamorro has rebelled against the constituted authority; but the Government proposes to subdue them in a short time relying on the support of legal and material forces, and on public opinion, and on the moral force which it is to receive from the express recognition of Your Excellency’s Government.
In taking charge of this office, I avail myself of the opportunity to express to Your Excellency the wishes of my Government and of myself for the prosperity of your friendly Nation and the happiness of its worthy mandatorio and the distinguished co-workers of Your Excellency.
With distinguished consideration, respectfully,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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