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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Gender:Male
Ethnic origen: Unknown
Events:
| 1816 | - | Hidalgo | - | Not applicable | - | Born |
| 1838 | - | Mexico City | - | Unknown | - | He wrote a romantic drama, Muñoz, Visitador de México |
| 1842 | - | Cuba | - | Unknown | - | He died on July 26 from an illness on his way to Cuba. |
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DiplomatsBiography:
A romantic dramatist, born in Mexico in 1816. He produced Muñoz, Visitador de México in 1838. La Hija del Oidor is a tragic story of a young girl who is saved from drowning by a criminal who seduces her and persuades her to elope with him. They are discovered so he kills her. "Mora" is the tale of a Mexican insurgent, Mora, who loves Angela, the daughter of a royalist. Angela's parents marry her off to someone more suitable. Angela tells Mora that she's been married against her will, but that she will not be unfaithful to her husband. She asks Mora to leave, but there's a duel that leaves Mora dead. Angela dies of a broken heart. La Visión de Moctezuma retells the legend of a poor Aztec woman, Nolixtli, who was unable to pay her taxes to the Aztec rulers. She and her daughter, Teyolia, were badly treated until Moctezuma saw Teyolia and fell in love with her. She is carried across the lake in Moctezuma's barge, Nolixtli swims after them, but drowns. Her ghost appears to Moctezuma warning that the Spaniards will come and end the Aztec rule. "La profecía de Guatemoc" tells of Cortés's torture of Cuauhtémoc.
His poems brought a diplomatic post, but he died on the way to Havana in 1842. (Coaster, 335-337)
References:
Coester, Alfred (1919) The Literary History of Spanish America