The troops were unsuccessfully attacking an isolated station on the border from El Salvador, which led Barrios to pass orders to Uraga to move the equipment to Chingo, whilst himself commencing the attack on El Salvador.

Elsewhere, in northern Guatemala, a 170-mercenary unit was defeated when they attempted to capture the guarded port city of Puerto Barrios.

In August 1989, Marcelo Barrios Andres, a 21 year-old member of the FPMR ( the armed wing of the PCC, created in 1983, which had attempted to assassinate Pinochet on 7 September 1986 ), was assassinated by a group of military personnel who were supposed to arrest him on orders of Valparaíso's public prosecutor.

As a strong supporter of Francisco Morazán's ideal, President Bográn was a unionist and attempted to bring about, with the help of then Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios, the unification of the five Central American states.

Puerto Barrios is starting to get more visitors in the new century as the nearby town of Santo Tomás de Castilla has started receiving cruise ships.

In the 1970s, Julio Barrios, Federico Brenes, Ángela Acevedo, Raúl Rocha, Norma Mejía y Cándido Mejía, this last one having perished, travelled to the city of San Miguelito to get a survey done.

After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.

Puerto Barrios is also the terminus for the United Fruit Company's railway, UFCO.

At the same time, Barrios, together with President Luis Bogran of Honduras, declared an intention to reunify the old United Provinces of Central America.

President Fernández died in office shortly after declaring war on Guatemala which, under Gen. Justo Rufino Barrios, had embarked on the reunification of the dissolved United Provinces of Central America.

In his politico-economic favouritism, President Ubico ceded physical control of much of Guatemala ’ s prime agricultural land, and de facto control of Puerto Barrios, the Caribbean Sea port that grants Guatemala access to the Atlantic Ocean, in exchange for building the ( road, rail, and telegraph ) infrastructure ; resultantly, in labour-and-management relations, the Guatemalan government often was politically subservient to foreign business interests, especially those of the United Fruit Company.

Barrios became a United States citizen in September 1994.

Barrios had ambitions of reuniting Central America and took the country to war in an unsuccessful attempt to attain this, losing his life on the battlefield in 1885 against forces in El Salvador.

Justo Rufino Barrios ( July 19, 1835 – April 2, 1885 ) was a President of Guatemala known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reunite Central America.

Mexican President Porfirio Díaz feared Barrios ' liberal reforms and the potential of a strong Central America as a neighbor if Barrios ' plans bore fruit.

Barrios made several friends during his multiple trips across South America.

Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America.

Barrios was a liberal and supported the unity of Central America.

Some first class bus operators ( such as Litegua between Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios, Fuente del Norte between Guatemala City and Flores, and Monja Blanca to Cobán ) run safe, modern air-conditioned buses for longer distances.

However, due to collusion between boat owners, the fares are much higher than passage from Puerto Barrios.

In 1753, Texas Governor Jacinto de Barrios y Juaregui determined that the French had encroached on Texas by occupying territory to the west of Arroyo Hondo ( Calcasieu River ), which runs south between the upper Sabine River to the west and the lower Red River to the north and east.

From west to east, the shore is divided between the Spanish municipalities of Algeciras, Los Barrios, San Roque, La Línea de la Concepción and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

It is divided into three parts, the Barrios Bajo, Medio and Alto ( lower, mid and upper quarters ), with 200 metres of altitude difference between the highest and lowest points.

He was Minister of Defense between the victory of the Sandinista revolution in 1979 under the National Reconstruction Government, through the first presidency of his brother Daniel Ortega Saavedra, and through the presidency of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who defeated Daniel Ortega in the elections of 1990.

* Other-Garífuna, descended from Black Africans and indigenous peoples from St. Vincent's, live mainly in Livingston and Puerto Barrios, and other blacks and mulattos ; Asians, mostly of Chinese descent, and also a growing Koreans in Guatemala and in nearby Mixco, currently numbering about 10, 000.

Water taxis offer daily crossings to Livingston and Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.

Puerto Barrios is a city in Guatemala, located within the Gulf of Honduras at

Puerto Barrios is located northeast of Guatemala City.

Barrios oversaw substantial cleaning and rebuilding of Guatemala City, and set up a new and accountable police force.

Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras agreed to reform the Central American Union, but then Salvadoran President Zaldivar decided to withdraw from the Union, and sent envoys to Mexico to join in an alliance to overthrow Barrios.

Today, his portrait is on the five Quetzal bill in Guatemala and the city and port of Puerto Barrios, capital of Izabal, bears his name.

José María Reina Barrios ( December 24, 1854, San Marcos – February 8, 1898 ) was President of Guatemala from 15 March 1892 through 8 February 1898.

By the time Cabrera assumed the presidency, there had been repeated efforts to construct a railroad from the major port of Puerto Barrios to the capital, Guatemala City.

The weapons were delivered to Guatemala at the Atlantic Ocean port of Puerto Barrios, by the Swedish freight ship, which sailed from the port of Szczecin in the People's Republic of Poland, a Communist satellite country of the USSR.

* Breuil, Véronique, Laura Gamez, James L. Fitzsimmons, Jean-Paul Metailie, Edy Barrios, and Edwin Roman ( 2004 ) Primeras noticias de Zapote Bobal, una ciudad maya clasica del norocidente de Peten, Guatemala.

La Aurora is being renovated, along with other airports in Guatemala, such as Mundo Maya International Airport, Quetzaltenango Airport, Puerto Barrios Airport, and San José Airport.

* Justo Rufino Barrios ( 1835-1885 ), President of Guatemala ( 1873-1885 )

On September 26, 1972 state forces captured Bernardo Alvarado, PGT general secretary, Mario Silva Jonama, Central Committee Secretary of PGT, Carlos René Valle y Valle, Carlos Alvarado Jerez, Hugo Barrios Klee and Miguel Angel Hernández, PGT Central Committee members, Fantina Rodríguez, party member, and the domestic worker Natividad Franco Santos, in a raid in Guatemala City.

The tower was built in 1935, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Justo Rufino Barrios, who was President of Guatemala and instituted a number of reforms.

The Estadio Municipal " Roy Fearon " is a football stadium located in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.

In 1876 he left office due to pressure from José María Reina Barrios, the president of Guatemala.