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Manuel Maples Arce

Died in 1981

Manuel Maples Arce was born in Papantla, in the state of Veracruz, on 1 May 1900, and spent his childhood in Tuxpan, where his father was a judge. After secondary school in Xalapa and Veracruz, he studied law in Mexico City. In 1921, he published the first manifesto of Estridentism in the sheet Actual. Secretary general of the government of Veracruz from 1926 to 1927, he entered the diplomatic service in 1935 and was an ambassador from 1944 to 1967, from Panama to Japan, Canada and Pakistan. He died in Mexico City on 26 June 1981.

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