Leopoldo Ramos Giménez was a libertarian anarchist and poet from

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

. He was a prominent critic of mensú

yerba mate Yerba mate or yerba maté (), ''Ilex paraguariensis'', is a plant species of the holly genus native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a bev ...

plantation worker treatment, and was wounded in an assassination attempt 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)

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

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