The return of the Islas de la…

The return of the Islas de la Bahía and the death of Walker had ended the immediate threat to Honduran territorial integrity, but other Central American nations continue to be involved in Honduran internal affairs.

Guardiola had been assassinated by his own honor guard in 1862, and the following decade witnesses  the presidency change hands almost twenty times.

General José María Medina serves as president or dictator eleven times during this period, but Guatemalan intervention in 1876 will drive him and his conservative supporters from power.