Aquileo Echeverría

Aquileo J. Echeverría was born on 22 May 1866 in San José. He took part in the campaign against the Guatemalan president Justo Rufino Barrios, then served the government of Adán Cárdenas in Nicaragua; there he became close to Rubén Darío, who would lead modernismo. As attaché of the Costa Rican legation in Washington, he attended the negotiations over the border with Nicaragua. A journalist for several periodicals, he then settled in Heredia. Ill, he went to Europe for treatment and died in Barcelona on 11 March 1909.

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• PoetryConcheríasAquileo Echeverría · 1905not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain