Francisco Morazán had written his manifesto "Al…

Francisco Morazán had written his manifesto "Al Pueblo de Centro America" while in exile in the Panamanian city of David.

In this literary work, he explains in detail the reasons why the Central American Union had failed.

He focuses his tirade against Rafael Carrera and the Conservative factions for failing to understand, and thus undermining what he was trying to accomplish.

In 1842, having been repeatedly asked to intervene, he disembarks in Costa Rica and joins forces with General Vicente Villaseñor, opposed to local leader Braulio Carrillo, who had recently declared himself ruler for life via a coup d'etat.

Morazán succeeds in ousting Carrillo and is proclaimed ruler of Costa Rica, which he intends to use as a base to reunite Central America.

After he decrees that able-bodied male Costa Ricans will be subject to compulsory service in the new Central American armed forces, Costa Ricans quickly turns against Morazán.

He is deposed, then executed in San José on September 15, the anniversary of Central American independence,

His last words are to General Villaseñor: "La posteridad nos hara justicia" (”Posterity shall do us justice.”)