Juan Montalvo

Died in 1889

Juan María Montalvo Fiallos was born in Ambato on 13 April 1832. Attached to his country's legation in Rome, he travelled through Europe at the end of the fifties, then returned to fight President Gabriel García Moreno with his pen; García Moreno's hostility forced him into exile in Colombia, at Ipiales, in 1869. When García Moreno was assassinated in 1875, he said that his pen had killed him. An equally resolute opponent of President Ignacio de Veintimilla, he lived in France from 1879 and died in Paris on 17 January 1889. His embalmed body lies in a mausoleum in Ambato.

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