Ramón Amaya Amador

Ramón Amaya Amador was born on 29 April 1916 in Olanchito, in the department of Yoro. As a young man he worked as a day labourer on the banana plantations of the north coast, then became a journalist in La Ceiba and in 1943 founded a weekly in Olanchito. Persecuted under the dictatorship, he went into exile in 1944 in Guatemala, then, after the fall of Jacobo Árbenz, in Argentina; after returning for a time to his country, he then settled in Prague. He died on 24 November 1966 in a plane crash near Bratislava.

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• NovelPrisión verdeRamón Amaya Amador · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature