Bolivians of Spanish Descent - Andres de Santa Cruz, Marco Etcheverry, Luis Garcia Meza Tejada, Juan Manuel Pena, Alvaro Garcia Linera (Paperback)

Chapters: Andres de Santa Cruz, Marco Etcheverry, Luis Garcia Meza Tejada, Juan Manuel Pena, Alvaro Garcia Linera, Franz Tamayo, Jose Maria Linares, Pedro Blanco Soto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Andres de Santa Cruz y Calahumana (December 5, 1792, La Paz, Bolivia September 25, 1865, Beauvoir, France) was President of Peru (1827) and Bolivia (1829-1839). He also served as Supreme Protector of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation (1836-1839), a political entity created mainly by his personal endeavors. Santa Cruz was born on December 5, 1792 in the city of La Paz, which at that time had been recently transferred from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. His father was a Spaniard, Jose Santa Cruz y Villavicencio, and his mother an Indian, Juana Basilia Calahumana, cacique of the town of Huarina. In later years, Andres de Santa Cruz would claim that through his mother he descended directly from Inca rulers. He began his studies in his hometown at the San Francisco Convent and continued them at the San Antonio Abad Seminary in the city of Cuzco, but in 1809 he deserted and returned to La Paz. Upon returning home, his father enrolled him as an alferez in the Dragones de Apolobamba Regiment of the Spanish Army. As such, he participated in the battles of Guaqui (July 20, 1811), Vilcapugio (October 1, 1813) and Ayohuma (November 14, 1813) where Argentine Independentist forces attempting to liberate the Upper Peru (modern day Bolivia) from the Spanish rule, were defeated. He also took part in the campaigns to suppress the insurrection of Mateo Pumacahua (1814-1815), further demonstrating his loyalty to the Spanish Crown. His luck run out at the Battle of La Tablada (April 15, 1817) where he was captured and taken...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=97759