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Jaime de Zudáñez (25 July 1776, in Chuquisaca – 1832, in
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) was a Bolivian politician and hero of the independence of three countries in South America.


Biography

Zudáñez was born in the city of
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, Chuquisaca, in present-day
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. He graduated as a lawyer in 1792, and continued his studies at the Academia Carolina, where he obtained a graduate degree in 1795 and was appointed Public Defender of Indigents. He was central to the independence movement that started in Chuquisaca on May 25, 1809, when after being arrested on suspicions of conspiracy, he publicly cried for help while being conducted to jail. A mob responded by taking over the city and capturing the authorities. The Colonial authorities, after the recapture of the city, sent him as a prisoner to
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, in Peru. From there, three months later, and after being liberated, he travelled to Chile (1811), where he worked with Generales
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and
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, and became a friend of
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. He had to seek refuge in
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(1814) after the
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. Zudáñez was a Vice President of the Tucumán Congress (1817–1819). He lived in
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,
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(1820), where he was a deputy to Congress (1828–1830). He died soon after in 1832.


See also

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Jaime Zudáñez Province Jaime Zudáñez is a Provinces of Bolivia, province in the Bolivian Departments of Bolivia, department of Chuquisaca Department, Chuquisaca. It was named after Jaime de Zudáñez, emancipation leader born in Chuquisaca in 1772. Geography Some o ...


References

1776 births 1832 deaths University of Charcas alumni Bolivian politicians People of the Spanish American wars of independence People of the Chilean War of Independence Foreign ministers of Chile Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay People from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata {{Bolivia-politician-stub