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Central American Independence Leader
About Víctor Ramírez
On September 15, 1821, while colonial officials in Guatemala City hesitated and factions quarreled over whether to join Mexico or declare full sovereignty, Ramírez convened the clandestine Junta de los Tres Pueblos, representatives from San Salvador, León, and Comayagua, in a tobacco warehouse outside Tegucigalpa. There, he drafted the 'Acta de Concordia', a radical document that rejected both Spanish rule *and* annexation by Iturbide’s empire, insisting instead on a federated Central American republic grounded in municipal autonomy. Unlike peers who relied on military coups or elite negotiations, Ramírez built consensus through artisan guilds, indigenous cabildos, and coffee-grower cooperatives, leveraging regional trade routes to circulate handwritten broadsides in Nahuatl, Garifuna, and Spanish. His insistence on rotating leadership among the five provinces delayed centralized power for twelve years, embedding checks that outlived the Federation itself. He never held the presidency, refused a general’s commission, and died overseeing irrigation canals in Chalatenango, his legacy written not in decrees, but in shared water rights agreements still cited in Salvadoran land courts today.
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