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Froylán Turcios

Died in 1943

Froylán Turcios was born in 1874 or 1875 in Juticalpa, in Olancho. From 1894 he founded and ran a series of literary reviews, then newspapers, and became one of the figures of Central American modernism. Minister of the Interior on several occasions and a Liberal deputy, he opposed the intervention of the United States and in the 1920s supported the struggle of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua. He died in San José, Costa Rica, in 1943.

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