The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated on Friday the 135th anniversary of the birth of Venezuelan writer and politician Romulo Gallegos:
“The Venezuelan people celebrates 135 years of the birth of one of the most prominent sons of the Homeland, Romulo Gallegos. Born in Caracas with a deep social sensitivity that he reflected in works such as: Cantaclaro, Canaima and Pobre Negro, immortalizing him in our collective ideology”, wrote the Head of State on the Twitter social network.
Romulo Gallegos Freire was born in Caracas on August 2, 1884 and died on April 5, 1969.
He was a Venezuelan novelist and politician, in addition to being one of the top representatives of the realistic trend that subsisted in the Spanish-American narrative of the first decades of the twentieth century, a period in which he lived with the development of the indigenist novel.
Among his best known works are “Doña Bárbara”, “Pobre Negro” and “Cantaclaro”.
In the political sphere, Gallegos was elected as President of the Republic in 1947, which made him the first president to be elected directly, secretly and universally. In the ninth month of his term he was overthrown by a coup d’etat.
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“The Venezuelan people celebrates 135 years of the birth of one of the country’s most prominent children, Romulo Gallegos. Born in Caracas with a deep social sensitivity that reflected it in works such as: Cantaclaro, Canaima and Pobre Negro, immortalizing him in our collective ideology”.
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