Gaspar Octavio Hernández

Gaspar Octavio Hernández was born on 14 July 1893 in Panama City, in the Santa Ana district. Raised in poverty, he was able to attend school for only three years and educated himself through reading. He edited the review Menphis, founded the newspaper Prensa Libre in 1913 and became editor-in-chief of La Estrella de Panamá. A municipal councillor of the capital from 1914 to 1916, he held that the nation that does not read always lives ready for servitude. He sang of his dark skin and fought the American hold on the canal. He died on 13 November 1918, aged twenty-five; that day has become the day of the Panamanian journalist.

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• PoetryCristo y la mujer de SicharGaspar Octavio Hernández · 1918not translated into EnglishLiterature