Miguel Antonio Caro
Miguel Antonio José Zoilo Cayetano Andrés Avelino de las Mercedes Caro Tobar (10 November 1843 – 5 August 1909) was a Colombian scholar and politician. Though he never used the title of President, but the one of Vice President of Colombia in charge of the Executive authority from 1894-1896 and 1896-1898., by respect to his mentor Rafael Núñez, whose illness forced him to cede day-to-day power.
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Caro was a well regarded classicist who published several notable Latin translations.
References
- ^ Staff report (August 7, 1909). Miguel Antonio Caro Dead. New York Times
Bibliography
- The 1893 Bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogota. D Sowell - Journal of Latin American Studies, 1989
- Limits of Power: Elections Under the Conservative Hegemony in Colombia, 1886-1930. E Posada-Carbo - The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1997
- Rodríguez-García, José María "The Regime of Translation in Miguel Antonio Caro's Colombia." diacritics - Volume 34, Number 3/4, Fall-Winter 2004, pp. 143-175
- The Political Economy of the Colombian Presidential Election of 1897. CW Bergquist - The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1976
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