El Gefe Provisorio de Guatemala a los Habitantes del Estado y de Toda la Republica. Encargado del Gobierno de Esta Estado, Mientras Se Roune el Cuerpo Constituyente Que Debe Decidir de Su Suerte... [caption title and first line of text]

[Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N.A. de Estudios, 1839. About very good.. Small broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8 inches. Unevenly trimmed, small piece of upper right corner torn away. Vertical tideline through center of sheet. Beginning in 1838, the Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by civil wars pitting Liberal against Conservative forces and factions within the various states with different demands for the central government, with constitutional issues at the heart of the controversy. The Liberals installed General Carlos Salazar as provisional president of Guatemala in January 1839, replacing Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz. In this decree, dated March 20, 1839, and issued during a break in hostilities between the sides, Salazar offers to act as mediator in any negotiations for a lasting peace. He ends by clearly stating the demands of the Liberals in Guatemala for a new federal government:

"La independencia de los Estados en su interior, y el que estos se entiendan entre sí, sin embarzos, para lograr la reunion del cuerpo convencional, será el fundamento de las negociones. Por este medio se obtendrá la pronta reorganizacion de la república; y el gobierno federal, facilitando su bien éxito, se hará sin duda acreedor á la consideracion general.... Tales son los deseos que animan, sin duda, a los guatemaltecos y los sentiminetos que profesa el encargado de su gobierno...."

A clear statement during a very unclear period in Central American politics. Not in OCLC.