Juan Maria Montalvo, Ecuadorian Political Activist and Writer
On April 13, 1832, Ecuadorian author Juan Maria Montalvo was born in the provincial town of Ambato. Montalvo was a leading liberal polemicist who challenged dictators in his native country. (A polemicists is a person with argumentative and controversial views; in the 21st century he would be a talk show host on MSNBC.) When one of the dictators was hacked to death by a vengeful, machete wielding assassin, Montalvo exclaimed that, “My pen killed him.” Under political pressure, Montalvo spent a number of years in exile, until his death in Paris in 1889.
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