Cecilio Zubillaga Perera, better known as Chío Zubillaga, was a

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from

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. He was born in

Carora The City of Carora, commonly called Carora City (in Spanish, Ciudad de Carora), is a city in Lara State, Venezuela, on the Morere River, a branch of the Tocuyo River. It is about 54 miles southwest of Barquisimeto. Carora City was founded twice. T ...

(

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) on February 1, 1887 and died there on July 25, 1948.

Biography

Although Zubillaga had little formal education and was largely self-taught, he wrote numerous articles on

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and social issues for newspapers in

Barquisimeto Barquisimeto (; guc, Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the fou ...

and

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. He was also a member of the Venezuelan National Academy of History.

Mentions

Historian Guillermo Morón published a collection of his newspaper articles and other writings under the title ''La Voz del Común''. Writers Rafael Montes de Oca Martínez and Juan Páez Ávila discussed his life in books entitled ''Biografía de un Genio Popular'' and ''Chío Zubillaga, Caroreño Universal''. Venezuelan journalists 1887 births 1948 deaths 20th-century journalists {{Venezuela-bio-stub