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Eleazar Lopez Contreras
Jose Eleazar Lopez Contreras was President of Venezuela (1935-1941). Lopez was a general and one of Juan Vicente Gomez's collaborators.
Eleazar Lopez was the only child of Col. Manuel Maria Lopez and Catalina Contreras. At three months old, his father died of yellow fever in Cucuta (Colombia), because of the political persecution, taking care of the family his uncle Presbyter Fernando Contreras. At the age of 15 received the degree in philosophy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus College, at the town of La Grita (Tachira). Initially, the young Eleazar was going to study medicine at the University of Merida, ...
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