Andrés Eloy Blanco
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Andrés Eloy Blanco | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela | |
| In office 15 February 1948 – 24 November 1948 | |
| President | Rómulo Gallegos |
| Preceded by | Gonzalo Barrios |
| Succeeded by | Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz |
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| Born | 6 August 1896 Cumaná, Sucre state |
| Died | 21 May 1955 (aged 57) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Democratic Action |
| Spouse | Lilina Iturbe |
| Profession | writer, poet, politician |
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Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño (6 August 1896 – 21 May 1955) was a noted
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela from 15 February 1948 until 24 November 1948.[citation needed
]
Biography
He was born in
Universidad Central de Venezuela
.
He earned his first award in 1918 by writing the
Juegos Florales (Floral Games) in Santander, Cantabria, Spain with the poem Canto a España (A Song to Spain). He traveled to Spain to receive the reward and stayed there for more than a year.[citation needed
]
He was
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela from 15 February 1948 until 24 November 1948.[citation needed]. In 1948 Blanco was exiled to Mexico City and Pedro Infante sings the song "Angelitos Negros" in the homonymous film inspired by his poem Píntame Angelitos Negros[1][2] set to music by the Mexican composer Manuel Álvarez Maciste.[3]
It's a protest against racism.
He died in Mexico City, Mexico, 21 May 1955. Several Venezuelan municipalities are named in his honor.
Bibliography
- Tierras que me oyeron (1921)
- Poda (1934)
- La Aeroplana Clueca (1935)
- Baedeker 2000 (1935)
- Barco de Piedra (1937)
- Abigaíl (1937)
- Malvina recobrada (1938)
- Liberación y Siembra (1938)
- Angelitos Negros (Black Little Angels) (1943)
- El Poeta y el pueblo (1954)
- Giraluna (1955)
- La Juanbimbada (1959)
See also
References
- "Andrés Eloy Blanco"
- Andrés Eloy Blanco biography
- Francisco Escamilla-Vera. Andrés Eloy Blanco (1896–1955). Barcelona: Biblio 3W – REVISTA BIBLIOGRÁFICA DE GEOGRAFÍA Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES (Serie documental de Geo Crítica), Universidad de Barcelona. Vol. IX, nº 550, 5 de diciembre de 2004 [1].
- Luis Chesney Lawrence (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas). Venezuelan dramatists in shadows: Andrés Eloy Blanco. In Spanish [2].
External links
- Andres Eloy Blanco recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on 23 November 1943.
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