Women and Independence in Latin America

An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence

Francisco Acuña de Figueroa

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1790  -  Montevideo  -  Not applicable  -  Born
1814  -  Rio de Janeiro  -  Unknown  -  He fled (exiled?) here after independence.
1818  -  Montevideo  -  Unknown  -  He returned after the city fell under Portuguese rule
1844  -  Montevideo  -  Unknown  -  He satirised the exiled Argentine romantics after 1844.
1862  -  Montevideo  -  Not applicable  -  He died on October 6

Connections:

Argentine exiles in Uruguay
Writers (men)

Biography:
Born in 1790, Uruguay, he was educated by Jesuits. A Monarchist, he wrote satires against the pro-independence groups. After independence he fled to Brazil, but was allowed to return and wrote the national anthem. He opposed the romantics in exile and after 1844 satirised them in a mock epic, La Malambrunada, the story of a war waged by an envious group of old women on young women. The old women are defeated and turned into frogs. He died in 1862. (Coaster, 169-171)

References:

Coester, Alfred (1919) The Literary History of Spanish America