Cirilo Antonio Rivarola

Cirilo Antonio Rivarola
Cirilo Antonio Rivarola
4th President of Paraguay
	In office ; 1 September 1870 ? 18 December 1871
Vice President	Cayo Miltos ; Salvador Jovellanos
Preceded by	Facundo Machain
Succeeded by	Salvador Jovellanos
Member of the Paraguayan Triumvirate ; Serving alongside ; Carlos Loizaga and Jose Diaz de Bedoya
	In office ; 15 August 1869 ? 31 August 1870
Preceded by	Francisco Solano Lopez ; (As President)
Succeeded by	Facundo Machain ; (As President)
Personal details
Born	1836 ; Eusebio Ayala , Paraguay
Died	31 December 1878 (aged 41–42) ; Asuncion , Paraguay
Cause of death	Stabbed to death
Parents	Capt. Juan Bautista Rivarola (father) ; Maria Felipa Acosta Cortazar (mother) ;

Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta (1836 ? 31 December 1878) was the 4th President of Paraguay and served from 1870 to 1871.

Biography [ edit ]

Portrait of Capt. Juan Bautista Rivarola, Cirilo's father

The Rivarola family was important in Paraguayan politics throughout the 19th century, and often found itself at odds with the Francia and Lopez governments. ^[1] During most of the War of the Triple Alliance , Rivarola served in the Paraguayan Army , reaching the rank of Sergeant. In 1869, however, amidst a wave of repression led by then president Francisco Solano Lopez , he was arrested due to reasons unknown. He then escaped captivity and in some of the war's remaining months served as a spy for the allies . ^[2] Afterwards, he went to Asuncion , where, thanks in part to his good relations with the Brazilian authorities, he was made one of the triumvirs who headed the provisional government that was created (mostly by Silva Paranhos , the chief Brazilian diplomat in Paraguay then). ^[3]

As both other triumvirs eventually resigned, Rivarola wound up being president of Paraguay until August 31, 1870, when the Paraguayan Congress elected Facundo Machain president along with the new constitution 's proclamation. On the very next day, however, Rivarola's presidency was renewed, as the Brazilian occupiers disagreed with Machain's nomination. ^[4] Rivarola then presided over Paraguay's settlement with the alliance, the return to peace, and the harsh first years of the 1870s.

He resigned in December 1871 due to a constitutional crisis. This was part of a ploy he had orchestrated with Juan Bautista Gill , president of the senate, where Gill would refuse his resignation and give him more power, but when the motion came to the Senate floor, Gill accepted it unreservedly. ^[5]

During the next few years, Rivarola, owner of an important estate in the south of the country, several times rebelled against the government in Asuncion, most of them with Argentinian support, for during the 1870s Brazilian influence was preponderant in most Paraguayan governments. In 1878, while on his way to a meeting with President Candido Bareiro , after he had been given a pardon, Rivarola was assassinated, stabbed to death by masked individuals in broad daylight. No one was ever arrested for this crime, despite it having happened less than 100 meters from the presidential palace. ^[6]

References [ edit ]

^ Maestri, Mario J. (2014). Paraguai: A Republica Camponesa (1810 - 1865) . Clube de Autores. ISBN 9789996748110 . Retrieved 2022-10-24 .
^ Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 38
^ Whigham, Thomas L. (2015). "Silva Paranhos e as origens de um Paraguai pos-Lopez (1869)" . Dialogos . 19 (13): 1088?1099. doi : 10.4025/dialogos.v19i3.1144 . Retrieved 24 October 2022 .
^ Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 38-39
^ Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 40
^ Warren, H.G.; Warren, K.F. (2014). Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878 . University of Texas Press. ISBN 9781477306994 . Retrieved 2017-01-07 .

Political offices
Preceded by Francisco Solano Lopez	Member of the Triumvirate 1869-1870	Succeeded by Facundo Machain
Preceded by Facundo Machain	President of Paraguay 1870?1871	Succeeded by Salvador Jovellanos

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[Maestri-1] Maestri, Mario J. (2014). Paraguai: A Republica Camponesa (1810 - 1865) . Clube de Autores. ISBN 9789996748110 . Retrieved 2022-10-24 .

[2] Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 38

[Whigham-3] Whigham, Thomas L. (2015). "Silva Paranhos e as origens de um Paraguai pos-Lopez (1869)" . Dialogos . 19 (13): 1088?1099. doi : 10.4025/dialogos.v19i3.1144 . Retrieved 24 October 2022 .

[4] Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 38-39

[5] Prado, Mario L. F. (2022), O Processo de Recuperacao Economica do Paraguai apos a Guerra da Triplice Alianca (1870-1890) , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, p. 40

[books.google.lv-6] Warren, H.G.; Warren, K.F. (2014). Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878 . University of Texas Press. ISBN 9781477306994 . Retrieved 2017-01-07 .

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