The priest Alejandro Flores, 200 years of oblivion

Abstract

Abstract In order to better document the emergence of what is today the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, this article offers a series of data on one of its forgotten founders, the Father Alejandro Flores. The idea of this article is to expose the figure of Flores as part of a team of thinkers and executors of a collective project, that of founding a higher educational establishment intended for instruction and training of Honduran professionals. But, the ultimate idea of these lines is to contextualize the person of Father Flores during his more than 80 years of existence and to highlight the fact that, 200 years after his birth, his figure still left behind the scenes of eclipsed national history. It is about following the traces of Father Flores through the historical and political process of Honduras, from the end of the Central American Federation to the country’s entry into the enclave economy. Hoping that reading this article, which is the reduced version of a longer text on the life of Father Flores (in preparation), will allow us to better understand the figure of the graduate in civil law, Father José Alejandro Ramón Flores Montoya (1824-1912).