Biography of Mariano Bertrand Anduray
He was born in Morolica (1889) and died in Curaren (1948). A comptroller and military officer, he studied accounting in Nicaragua.
He served as the Chief of the National Polytechnic School until 1911, instructor of the Veterans Battalion, Major of the Plaza in Choluteca and La Ceiba, Director of Police in San Pedro Sula, Commander and Political Governor of Valle and Tegucigalpa, Director General of the National Police, Chief of the Presidential General Staff, member of the Commission for the Study of Internal and External Debts, and Consul in New York in 1929-30. He was a leader of the Republican Party, which rallied around General Vicente Tosta and provided electoral support to the Liberal Party in the 1928 elections.
As a member of the National Congress, he was deported in 1935 by the government of Carias for supporting Venancio Callejas and for attacking corruption and fiscal policies of the government in the newspaper El Detective. He settled in Costa Rica. In 1948, when José Ángel Zúñiga Huete ordered the uprising of his followers after deciding not to participate in the presidential elections, Bertrand Anduray headed south but was intercepted near Curaren by government troops and executed.
