José Eustasio Rivera

José Eustasio Rivera was born in Huila in 1888, became a lawyer and sat on a commission responsible for delimiting the border with Venezuela. On that occasion he passed through the rubber camps of the Amazon and saw the fate of the indebted workers, who were held captive and mutilated; he wrote reports on them, which the administration left to gather dust. He also sat in the Chamber, where he called for inquiries into the oil concessions. He died in New York in 1928, while preparing an English edition of his book.

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• NovelThe VortexLa vorágineJosé Eustasio Rivera · 1924LiteraturePublic domain