Juan pablo duarte biografia español

Dominican Republic's Father of the Nation (1813–1876)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Duarte and the second or maternal family name is Díez.

Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876)^[1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.

As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a folk hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who along with military generals Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted La Trinitaria, a secret society that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the Dominican War of Independence.

Born into a middle-upper class family in 1813, his childhood was engulfed in several admi