Jose Manuel de Ezpeleta, conde de Ezpeleta de Beire (in full, Jose Manuel Ignacio Timoteo de Ezpeleta Galdeano Dicastillo y del Prado, conde de Ezpeleta de Beire) (b. 1739 - d. 1823) was a Spanish military officer and politician, governor of Cuba from 1785 to 1789, and viceroy of New Granada from 1789 to 1797.
A knight of the Order of Charles III and of the Order of San Hermenegildo, he was also a judge of the Order of St. John. He was a governor of the Supreme Royal Council to His Majesty and a councilor of state, as well as field marshal in the royal army.
On December 1, 1785 he became Spanish governor of Cuba. He held this position until 1789, when he was promoted to viceroy of New Granada.
As viceroy of New Granada
His term of office saw the birth of journalism in New Granada, under the direction of Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez, the first director of Papel Periodico in Bogota. Two hundred sixty-five issues of this periodical appeared.
Ezpeleta founded the first theater in Bogota. He supported literary circles, in which some of the future heroes of the independence movement participated. In 1794, Antonio Narino published a translation of the Rights of Man, for which he was tried and convicted.
Like his predecessors, Ezpeleta tried to spur the mining industry in Mariquita, but he came to the conclusion that the operating expenses were greater than the output. He promoted Catholic missions as a means of pacifying the Indigenous who had not accepted Spanish rule, especially those of Andaquies.
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