[1] In December 1833, the administration of Dionisio de Herrera voluntarily ended in advance and was followed temporarily by advisor Benito Morales as head of the executive branch.
With Núñez's patience exhausted, he used military force to subdue Flores who, after being defeated in Managua on 18 August, fled to Granada where he was unable to organize a resistance.
Before the arrival of Núñez's forces, Flores fled from Granada to Costa Rica with his friends, and the city was left in the hands of a disorganized mob that committed lootings and robberies, especially in the houses of foreigners.
[4] On 25 January 1837 Casto Fonseca, a graduate in medicine, and Colonel Bernardo Méndez de Figueroa "El Pavo", a man only notable for his fondness for gambling, stormed the León barracks and took a man named Braulio Mendiola out of jail, who was given a large escort by the assailants with orders to arrest Zepeda, Colonel Román Valladares, Deputy Pascual Rivas and Captain Evaristo Berríos.
Núñez did not arrest the rebels, but rather appeased Méndez and appointed him General Commander of Arms, but the criminal Braulio Mendiola was captured and executed for the killings.
Fonseca promoted himself to the highest rank of "Grand Marshal" and wore operetta garb, from 1837 until his death in 1845, during which time he became the true arbiter of political life in Nicaragua, with the ability to even influence the elections of the supreme authorities of the State, which aroused the uncalmed traditional passionate hatreds.