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Antonio Narino
Antonio Narino was an ideological and one of the early political and military leaders of the independence movement in Colombia, then known as New Granada. Narino was born in Santa Fe de Bogota in 1765 and died in Villa de Leyva in 1823.
Early political activity
In 1794 he translated the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" from its original French. For this he was imprisoned ten years by the Spanish authorities. Narino had previously worked as a tax collector ("Recaudador de diezmos") and was also accused of fraud resulting from this activity.
In 1796 he escaped from the Spanish ...
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