Mariano Gálvez

governor of Guatemala

Learn about this topic in these articles:

In Central America: Morazán’s presidency
Mariano Gálvez, including anticlericalism, encouragement of foreign immigration, land grants, judicial reform, and a general head tax, combined with panic caused by a cholera epidemic, led to peasant revolts beginning in 1837. Behind the charismatic leadership of Rafael Carrera, the peasants not only toppled Gálvez…
Read More