After a campaign that included the near destruction of Guayaquil, the forces of Gran Colombia, under the leadership of Sucre and Venezuelan General Juan José Flores, proved victorious.

Juan José Flores known as the founder of the Republic was of the foreign military variety.

* Junquera, Juan José.

Román Rodríguez and José Juan Herrera Velázquez, presidents of Gobierno de Canarias and Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura at the time of this statue by Emiliano Hernández in honour of Manuel Velázquez Cabrera on 08 / 11 / 2001.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

In 1945, the civilian president, Juan José Arévalo, was elected, and served until 1951.

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

On December 14, they sent infielder Chris Burke, RHP Juan Gutiérrez, and RHP Chad Qualls to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RHP José Valverde.

José Victoriano ( Carmelo Carlos ) González-Pérez ( March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927 ), better known as Juan Gris (), was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.

It was in 1905 that José González adopted the more distinctive pseudonym Juan Gris.

* 1800 – Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and politician ( d. 1864 )

Provoked by Russian expansion down the Alaska coast Juan José Pérez Hernández explored the Pacific coast in 1774, followed by James Cook in 1778.

* 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

Although Juan Perón encouraged the actions of José López Rega, supported the right-wing unionists and denied preferential promotions to the Montoneros, they thought that his actions were simply a strategic masquerade, and that he actually supported the Montoneros ' projects.

In 1970, claiming to act in retribution for the June 1956 León Suárez massacre and Juan José Valle's execution, the Montoneros kidnapped and executed former dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu ( 1955 – 1958 ) and others who they said were his collaborators, such as unionists, politicians, diplomats, and businessmen.

The leader of this revolt, Gen. José María Moncada, declared that he supported the claim of exiled Liberal vice-president Juan Bautista Sacasa, who arrived in Puerto Cabezas in December, declaring himself president of a " constitutional " government.

* 1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.

He married Isabel Margarita Morel Gumucio on December 17, 1955, with whom had four children: Cristián, José, Francisco, and Juan Pablo Letelier.

In March 2000, doctors at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José, Costa Rica, published the manuscripts of the Costa Rican scientist and medical doctor Clodomiro ( Clorito ) Picado Twight ( 1887 – 1944 ).

Panamanians Mariano Arosemena, Manuel María Ayala, and Juan José Calvo, as well as Colombian Juan José Argote, formed the writing team of the new newspaper, whose stories would circulate throughout every town in the isthmus.

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives.

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Examples of other early works that use Spanish proverbs are the Libro de Buen Amor by Juan Ruiz ( 14th century ) and El Corbacho by Alfonso Martínez de Toledo ( 15th century ).

* August 4 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist ( b. c. 1571 )

** Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist ( d. 1639 )

** Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita ( b. c. 1283 )

Run by the charismatic warden, Juan Ruiz " El Fuego " Escarzaga ( Tony Plana ), the place is known for its new state of the art death chamber where the condemned can choose from five different ways to die — lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, or electric chair.

Other notable figures associated with the city are Ferdinand I of Aragon, cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, the mystic John of the Cross, the theologian Gabriel Vázquez, the poet Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, and Manuel Azaña Díaz, writer and politician, who was President of the Second Spanish Republic between 1933 and 1936.

On September 9 of that same year, a second world title opportunity came, when he faced the WBO world champion, the also late Jose Ruiz in San Juan.

Iturbide was fully reinstated to military command in November 1820 by viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca.

Outstanding colonial writers and poets include Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

The second part ( 1635 ), the printing of which was paid for by the confraternity of St Jerome, contains four plays by Tirso de Molina, and eight written by him in collaboration with other dramatists ; one of these collaborators was Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, but Tirso de Molina was the predominant spirit in these literary partnerships.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón ( 1581?

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in Real de Taxco, now in Guerrero.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón had four brothers: Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón, who was rector at the College of Saint John Lateran, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón who was a priest and is known for having written a treatise documenting the non-Christian religious practices of the Nahua Indians of central Mexico, Gaspar and García, about whom little is known.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born about 1581 at Real de Taxco, New Spain, where his father was superintendent of mines ; his mother was descended from one of Spain ’ s most illustrious families, the Mendozas.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

* Foley, Augusta E. Occult Arts and Doctrine in the Theater of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

The Political Theater of Early Seventeenth-Century Spain with Special Reference to Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

* Josa, Lola, El arte dramático de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

* King, Willard F. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: letrado y dramaturgo.

Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

* Schons, Dorothy, Apuntes y documentos nuevos para la biografía de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza ( Chicago: 1929.

The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.