José Núñez de Cáceres, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Núñez de Cáceres

Dominican writer and politician

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1772

Place of Birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1846

Profession: writer, politician

Nationality: Cuba, Dominican Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor (Santo Domingo, March 14, 1772 – Ciudad Victoria, September 11, 1846) was a Dominican politician and writer.
He is better known for being the leader of the independence movement against Spain in 1821 and the only President of the short-lived Republic of Spanish Haiti, which lasted only from December 1, 1821 to February 9, 1822.
This period is also known as the Ephemeral independence because it quickly ended two months later with the Unification of Hispaniola under the Haitian government.
Shortly before these events, while Spain exercised a perfunctory rule over the east side of Hispaniola, Núñez de Cáceres pioneered the use of literature as a weapon for social protest and anti-colonial politics.
He was also the first Dominican and criollo fabulist, and one of the first criollo storytellers in Spanish America.
Many of his works appeared in his own satirical newspaper, El Duende, the second newspaper created in Santo Domingo.