Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol
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His Excellency Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol |
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 6th President of Guatemala |
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In office 14 April 1865 – 24 May 1865 |
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| Preceded by | Rafael Carrera y Turcios |
| Succeeded by | Vicente Cerna y Cerna |
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala |
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In office 1851 – 14 April 1865 |
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| President | Rafael Carrera |
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| Born | 19 October 1802 |
| Died | 14 March 1897 (aged 94) Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | politician, diplomat |
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| Concordat between the Holy See and the President of the Republic of Guatemala | |
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Captain General Rafael Carrera
President of Guatemala in 1854 |
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| Created | 1852 |
| Ratified | 1854 |
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 Vatican Holy See and Congress of Guatemala
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| Author(s) | Fernando Lorenzana and Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol |
| Wyke-Aycinena treaty | |
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| Created | April 30, 1859 |
| Ratified | September 26, 1859 |
| Location |
 United Kingdom United Kingdom and  Guatemala, Guatemala City. |
| Author(s) | Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol |
| Purpose | Define the borders between the British settlement of Belize and Guatemala. |
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol (19 October 1802 - 14 May 1897) was a conservative politician and member of the Aycinena clan that worked closely with the conservative regime of Rafael Carrera. He was interim president of Guatemala in 1865 after the death of president for life, general Rafael Carrera.
In 1854 a Concordat was established with the Holy See, which was signed in 1852 by Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State of the Vatican and Fernando Lorenzana plenipotentiary -Guatemala Ambassador before the Holy See. Through this treaty -which was designed by Aycinena clan leader, Dr. and clergyman Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol - Guatemala placed its people education under the control of Catholic Church regular orders, committed itself to respect Church property and monasteries, authorized mandatory tithing and allowed the bishops to censor whatever was published in the country; in return, Guatemala received blessings for members of the army, allowed those who had acquired the properties that the Liberals had expropriated the Church in 1829 to keep them, perceived taxes generated by the properties of the Church, and had the right, under Guatemalan law, to judge ecclesiastics who perpetrated certain crimes. The concordat was ratified by Pedro de Aycinena and Rafael Carrera in 1854 and kept a close relationship between Church and State in the country; it was in force until the fall of the conservative government of Marshal Vicente Cerna y Cerna.
The Belize region in the Yucatan peninsula was never occupied by either Spain or Guatemala, even though Spain made some exploratory expeditions in the 16th century that served as its basis to claim the area; Guatemala simply inherited that argument to claim the territory, even though it never sent any expedition to the area after the Independence from Spain in 1821, due to the Central American civil war that ensued and lasted until 1860. On the other hand, the British had established a small settlement there since the middle of the 17th century, mainly as buccaneers quarters and then for fine wood production; the settlements were never recognized as British colonies even though they were somewhat under the jurisdiction of the Jamaican British government. In the 18th century, Belize became the main smuggling center for Central America, even though the British accepted Spain sovereignty over the region by means of the 1783 and 1786 treaties, in exchange for a cease fire and the authorization for the Englishmen to continue logging in Belize.
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