Jaime Mendoza

Jaime Mendoza was born in Sucre on 25 July 1874 and became a doctor there. He treated the soldiers and rubber workers during the Acre campaign, then practised for many years among the miners of Llallagua. Back in his city, he founded two newspapers there, taught at the faculty of medicine, of which he became rector in 1930, and sat in the Senate from 1931 to 1936. Rubén Darío saw in him a new Gorky. A geographer as much as a novelist, he devoted several works to the geography of his country, and died in 1939.

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• NovelEn las tierras del PotosíJaime Mendoza · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature