Guillermo Prieto

Guillermo Prieto was born in Mexico City on 10 February 1818. He worked as a clerk in a shop and then at the customs house, and in 1836 he founded, with other young men, the Academia de Letrán, which sought a Mexican literature. A theatre columnist and journalist under the name Fidel, and a liberal, he was Juárez's finance minister during the War of the Reform and saved his life at Guadalajara on 14 March 1858 by stepping in front of the guns. A deputy from 1867 to 1877, he died at Tacubaya on 2 March 1897.

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• PoetryMusa callejeraGuillermo Prieto · 1883not translated into EnglishLiterature