Also involved in scandals has been José María Figueres, former President from PLN and former head of the World Economic Forum.

Leading national figures in these years included Félix Varela and Cuba's first revolutionary poet, José María Heredia.

The military has seized power three times in Colombia's history: in 1830, after the dissolution of Great Colombia ; again in 1854 ( by General José María Melo ); and from 1953 to 1957 ( under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ).

* 1969 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( b. 1911 )

* 1954 – José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician

The Mondragon Corporation based out of the Basque Country in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and economic teachings that inspired Belloc, Chesterton, McNabb and the other founders of distributism.

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

Much of the 20th century was dominated by one José María Velasco Ibarra, whose 5 presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and final presidency ended in 1972.

Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.

* 1959 – José María Cano, Spanish musician ( Mecano )

* 1972 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.

* 1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist ( d. 1906 )

Madero was arrested and a short time later assassinated along with his Vice-President, José María Pino Suárez on the 22nd of February 1913, following the series of events known as the Ten Tragic Days ( la Decena Tragica ).

Following his enforced resignation, Madero and his Vice-President José María Pino Suárez were kept under guard in the National Palace.

Vancouver was " mortified " ( his word ) to learn they already had a crude chart of the Strait of Georgia based on the 1791 exploratory voyage of José María Narváez the year before, under command of Francisco de Eliza.

In 1996, the centre-right Partido Popular government came to power, led by José María Aznar.

required Although José María Aznar and his ministers were quick to accuse ETA of the atrocity, soon afterwards it became apparent that the bombing was the work of an extremist Islamic group linked to Al-Qaeda.

* 1840 – José María Velasco Gómez, Mexican painter ( d. 1912 )

* 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.

* 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban composer and pianist

* Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle 1969 – 1979 by María José Moyano ( 1995 ).

* 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

* 1991 – José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer

* 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O ' Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2, 000 Spaniards and 1, 000 Chilean patriots dead.

* 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer, nobleman, and politician, founder of the Falange ( d. 1936 )

Moving from the experimental stage to a more commercial endeavor, he and his brother José set up shop in a Santiago de Cuba distillery they bought in 1862 ; that distillery housed a still made of copper and cast iron.

Chilean and Argentinean troops going to the Battle of Chacabuco ( February 12, 1817 ) led by José de San Martín.

In exile in Argentina, O ' Higgins joined forces with José de San Martín.

* 12 October 1813 – 12 February 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 1st time )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

pt: Carlos Xavier José de Franqueville de Abancourt

* Constitución de 1833-Written among others by Mariano Egaña and Manuel José Gandarillas

* Constitución de 1925-Written among others by Arturo Alessandri Palma and José Maza

* António José da Silva – writer of Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança ( 1733 )

* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

General Antonio José de Sucre, Commander In Chief, División del Sur

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

By this time, the forces of independence had grown continental in scope and were organized into two principal armies, one under the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar in the north and the other under the Argentine José de San Martín in the south.

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

However, the coup de grâce for Mahuad's administration was Mahuad's decision to make the local currency, the sucre ( named after Antonio José de Sucre ), obsolete and replace it with the U. S. dollar ( a policy called dollarization ).

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador.