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Martín Luis Guzmán

Died in 1976

Martín Luis Guzmán was born in Chihuahua on 6 October 1887 and spent his childhood in Veracruz. A law student in Mexico City, he joined Pancho Villa's forces after 1913. Imprisoned by Carranza, he went into exile in Spain and then in New York, where he ran a magazine; on his return he founded the daily El Mundo, then went into exile again after supporting the opposition to Calles, and lived in Madrid until 1936. Back in Mexico, he ran the weekly Tiempo and died in Mexico City on 22 December 1976.

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