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At first light on Thursday, January 24, 1811 the British schooner, Fame cast off from the port of Buenos Aires to London. Soon after its most famous passenger, the recently resigned Secretary of Government and Commander of the First Board, Mariano Moreno, a young man who had never enjoyed good health, fell ill and told his companions grimly ” Something evil is posted on my journey. ” His hunch was not unfounded. A few days later, on Monday March 4, died at sea in mysterious circumstances. His body was thrown into the water. She was only 32 years and nobody had incarnated as the ideals of the Revolution of May.
Two hundred years later, that death is still not clarified and it is assumed that Moreno may have been poisoned.
However, as said Cornelio Saver (his great rival in the Primer Junta) to learn of his death: so much water was needed to extinguish such fire. Therefore, on the bicentennial of his death, his passion is still burning, with the unfinished revolution, on and bright as his intelligence.
Lawyer, journalist and politician, Mariano Moreno hated vanity and corruption of the powerful with the vehemence of a volcano. He despised the flatterers and obsequious, like leeches. He hated inequality and servitude in all its forms. Also, and essentially, she loved freedom. I knew that press freedom was the essence of democracy and founded the Gazette de Buenos Ayres. He knew that education and reading were the only way forward and founded the National Library.
I knew that the Revolution of May was a long task and wrote the Revolutionary Plan of Operations, tried a bold tactical and strategic wartime.
He knew that the traitors, cowards and murderers abounded in those turbulent days of May, when the nation was born, and without measuring risks faced.
His brother Manuel, who accompanied him on the trip, was the first to suggest that he had been poisoned.
Mariano Moreno was born in Buenos Aires on September 23, 1778. He was the eldest of 14 children born to Manuel Moreno and arguments, a Spanish immigrant and Ana Maria Valle.
His father, born in Scamander, an official of the Treasury of the rural banks. His mother was one of the few women in Buenos Aires who could read and write, and Mariano learned his first letters to her.
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