Santiago Vaca Guzman (

Sucre Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...

, c. 1847 –

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, 1896) was a

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writer. He trained as a lawyer and worked as a journalist, founding the newspaper ''La Patria'' in Sucre in 1871. As a writer, he published both fiction and poetry. His novel ''Su excelencia y su ilustrisima'' is regarded as one of the finest in

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. His political stance against the

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Mariano Melgarejo Manuel Mariano Melgarejo Valencia (13 April 1820 – 23 November 1871) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the fifteenth president of Bolivia from December 28, 1864, until his fall on January 15, 1871. He assumed power ...

and Agustin Morales forced him to go into exile. He died in Argentina in 1896.

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