Ignacio Andrade
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Ignacio Andrade Troconis was a military man and politician. He was known as a member of the Liberal yellow party, and served as the president of Venezuela from 1898 until 1899 – his election was decla
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Andrade and Isabel Sosa Saa in 1898
María Isabel Sosa Saa
Cipriano Castro
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José Cipriano Castro Ruiz was a Venezuelan politician and officer of the military who served as president from 1899 to 1908. He was the first man from the Venezuelan Andes to rule the country, and was
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…not a member of the caudillo class. In 1899 the Colombian writer Biofilo Panclasta traveled to Venezuela, where he joined the army of the Venezuelan Cipriano Castro, which had as its goal the downfall of president Andrade. After leaving this group shortly after, Panclasta traveled Venezuela with other revolutionary…
Castro in 1908
Cipriano Castro at the age of 25
Juan Vicente Gómez and Cipriano Castro
Caricature of Cipriano Castro, by William Allen Rogers, published in the New York Herald, January 1903