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Jacobo Cárcamo

Died in 1959

Jacobo Cárcamo was born on 28 November 1916 in El Arenal, in the department of Yoro. Still a schoolboy in Tegucigalpa, he was a reporter for the daily El Cronista and published his first verses. In 1942 he left for Mexico City thanks to a scholarship obtained by Marcos Carías Reyes, a close associate of the dictator Tiburcio Carías Andino, gave it up and joined the Honduran exiles opposed to the regime. Poor and ill with tuberculosis, he received the Ramón Rosa national prize in 1955 and died on 2 August 1959 in Chapingo, near Mexico City.

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