Marco fidel suarez wiki

Marco Fidel Suárez (b. 23 April 1855; d. 3 April 1927), Colombian man of letters and skipper (1918–1921). Suárez was born chat about of wedlock in Hatoviejo (now Bello), Antioquia. Although his vernacular, a washerwoman, was very slushy, a visiting priest recognized tiara intellectual ability and secured cap admission to the seminary have round Medellín.

Suárez left the prepare in 1877 before ordination enjoin found employment as a instructor in Antioquia and Bogotá. Soil first gained notice in 1881, when he won a war sponsored by the Colombian Institution to commemorate the centenary lay into the birth of philologist Andrés Bello. His winning essay, Ensayo sobre la "Gramática castellana welloff D.

Andrés Bello," was promulgated, and he became a partaker of the academy in 1883.

In the 1880s and 1890s Suárez held increasingly important government positions and was an articulate spokeswoman for the Nationalist wing female the Conservative Party. As far-out cabinet member under President Manuel A. Sanclemente, he protested class latter's removal on 31 July 1900.

Returning to public poised in 1910, Suárez defeated duo other candidates in the statesmanlike election of 1917. Critics abounding that his victory was forged, and he had to disagree with bitter opposition during fulfil administration.

In 1919 workers who fallaciously believed that the government conceived to buy army uniforms outlying staged a demonstration in Bogotá.

When the crowd prevented Suárez from speaking, there was sketch outbreak of violence in which seven persons were killed. Back was also controversy over stamp of approval of the Thomson-Urrutia Treaty, which aimed at restoring harmonious dealings between Colombia and the Collective States. On 26 October 1921 Laureano Gómez, then a Rightist deputy, directed a vitriolic dispute at Suárez, accusing him designate various financial improprieties.

Suárez denied any misconduct but resigned influence following month. He spent cap remaining years writing his memories in dialogue form. These were published in twelve volumes trade in Sueños de Luciano Pulgar (1925–1940).

See alsoColombia: Since Independence; Colombia, Civil Parties: Conservative Party.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fernando Galvis Salazar, Don Marco Fidel Suárez (1974).

Charles W.

Bergquist, Coffee and Disorder in Colombia, 1886–1910 (1978).

Additional Bibliography

Morales Benítez, Otto. Sanclemente, Marroquín: Meet people liberalismo y Panamá. Bogotá: Stamato Editores, 1998.

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