Pedro Guerra Cabrera (January 29, 1937 in

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– September 29, 1991 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) was a lawyer, writer and a

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. He went to High School in Güímar and studied law at the

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. He held the following political positions: Director of the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, mayor of Guimar, regional committee member of the

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(PSC-PSOE), deputy regional president of the

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(being the first president of same from 1982 to 1987) and senator for the island of Tenerife. He was also a member of the Popular Culture Center Canaria. Cabrera is the author of the novel ''Last Nap of the Cacique'' (1982). He wrote poetry, publishing Ballads to the island in the eyes (1985). He also devoted himself to historical research, publishing in 1980 ''The Guanches of Tenerife South, a peace that was not treason''. Another of his publications, jokingly, ''was speaking politicians and canariense Jable Ansina Christians!'' (1987). He died in 1991 in

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. He was the father of singer-songwriter

Pedro Guerra Pedro Manuel Guerra Mansito (born 2 June 1966 in Güímar, Tenerife) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. Biography Guerra is the son of Pedro Guerra Cabrera, the first President of the Canarian Parliament. He began studying the guitar at the C ...

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