Leopoldo Ramos Giménez was a libertarian anarchist and poet from Paraguay. He was a prominent critic of

mensú Mensú, also known as mineros, were indentured laborers of the rural, jungle yerba mate plantations in the Alto Paraná Department of Paraguay and Argentina from 1880 to 1950. Their inhospitable work conditions were the subject of social c ...

yerba mate plantation worker treatment, and was wounded in an

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in 1916.

Selected works

* ''Piras sagradas'', Asunción, 1917 - (Sacred pyres) * ''Eros, Asunción'', 1918 - (Eros) * ''Alas y sombras'', Buenos Aires, 1919 - (Wings and shadows) * ''Cantos del solar heroico'', Asunción, 1920 - (Heroic songs of the sun) * ''Canto a las palmeras de Río de Janeiro'', Río de Janeiro, 1932. - (Song of the palms of Rio de Janeiro) Collection of de verses. * ''Tabla de sangre'', libro de combate, contra el régimen de esclavitud imperante en los yerbales y obrajes del Alto Paraná, Asunción, 1919 - (Table of blood, book of combat against the regime of slavery prevailing in the mate plantations mills of Alto Parana) * ''La bestia blanca'', Asunción, 1919 - (The white beast) * ''En el centenario del mariscal López'', polémica histórica, San Pablo, 1927 - (In the centenary of Marshal López, historical controversy) * ''La yerba mate'', Asunción, 1931 - (The yerba matte) * ''El Brasil, su desarrollo económico-industrial'', Río de Janeiro, 1932 - (Brazil, its economic and industrial development) * ''Siembra blanca'', campaña de aproximación paraguayo-brasilera, Río de Janeiro, 1932 - (White Sowing, Paraguayan-Brazilian campaign approach) * ''El hierro y otros metales en el Paraguay'' - (Iron and other metals in Paraguay) * ''Historia cartográfica del Chaco'', Buenos Aires, 1935 - (Cartographic history of the Chaco) * ''El Chaco Boreal en la historia y en nuestros días'', Buenos Aires, 1934 - (The Boreal Chaco in history and today)

References

1891 births 1988 deaths People from Villarrica, Paraguay Paraguayan male writers Paraguayan journalists Paraguayan male journalists Paraguayan Marxists Paraguayan anarchists 20th-century journalists 20th-century Paraguayan poets {{Anarchist-stub