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José Coronel Urtecho ( in the 1930s, he became a strong supporter of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1977.1 BIOGRAPHY He was born on February 28, 1906 in Granada, Nicaragua to Manuel Coronel Matus and Blanca Urtecho Avilés. Urtecho left to San Francisco , California in 1924 after graduating from Universidad Centroamericana . He is credited with founding the Vanguard Literary Movement which developed between 1929 and 1933. In 1934, he founded the newspaper, ''La Reacción'', where he advanced pro-fascist ideas. After he recovered from a Mental Crisis , while serving diplomatic positions in New York City and Madrid for the Somoza government, Urtecho decided to write about the history of Nicaragua in 1959. He married María Kautz Gross. One of his sons, Ricardo, would be a member of '' Los Doce ''; another, Carlos, would be a key adviser of Edén Pastora . Nephews include Ernesto Cardenal , himself an influential poet and author, and Edgar Chamorro . Utecho senis latter years residing near San Carlos in southern Nicaragua. whe died from cancer on March 19, 1994. " Jose Coronel Urtecho, Poet and Diplomat, 88 ," ''The New York Times'', March 21, 1994 SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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