Joaquín Zavala, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Nicaragua
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Place of Birth: Managua, Managua Department, Nicaragua
About Joaquín Zavala
- Joaquín Zavala Solís (30 November 1835 in Managua – 30 December 1906 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1879 to 1 March 1883 and from 16 July to 15 September 1893.
- He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua.He is now remembered especially for having thwarted the request of the young Rubén Darío, later to become one of the most well-known Spanish-language poets, for a government scholarship to study in Europe.
- In 1882 Darío, then 15 years old, read some of his poetry to a group including the President - whereupon Zavala reportedly reproved him: "My son, if you so write against the religion of your fathers and their homeland now, what will become of you if you go to Europe and learn worse things?"
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