Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Conservative Guatemalan statesman
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Place of Birth: Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala
About Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol
- Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol (1789-1855) was wealthy and influential Guatemalan merchant family and an important conservative politician.
- A younger son of the first marquis of Aycinena, peninsular-born Juan Fermín de Aycinena (1729-1796), Mariano was a leader of Guatemalan independence from Spain.
- He served governor of the State of Guatemala in the Central American Federation from 1 March 1827 to 12 April 1829 and patriarch of the Aycinena family.
- The family had the commercial monopoly in Central American during the Spanish colonial era later year thanks to the Consulado de Comercio.
- He was one of the signatories of Central American independence and lobbied heavily for the annexation of Central America to the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide.
- This arrangement would keep the family's economic position and privileges following independence.
- After being expelled along with the Aycinena family in 1829 after being defeated by Francisco Morazán, went into exile in the United States and then to Mexico.
- He came back to Guatemala after the conservatives had allied with general Rafael Carrera; but then he retired from public life and hand the Aycinena family leadership to Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol.
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