Salvador Díaz Mirón

Salvador Díaz Mirón was born in Veracruz on 14 December 1853, the son of Manuel Díaz Mirón, a politician who governed the state. Self-taught, a journalist from the age of fourteen, and a deputy, he killed in 1892 a young man who had insulted him and spent several years in prison. Imprisoned again in 1910 for an attempt on the life of a deputy, he directed the daily El Imparcial under Huerta, then went into exile in Europe. On returning home, he directed the preparatory college of Veracruz and died in that city on 12 June 1928.

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