Sarmiento meaning
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Sarmiento braceDomingo Faustino Sarmiento was not just the author of the famed work Facundo, but also one of Argentina’s most important writers and statesmen. He was part of the group of intellectuals called the “Generation of 1837” that advocated for freedom of speech, republicanism, and free trade, among other things.
He was born in 1811 to a religious mother and a father who’d served in the wars of independence.
Their patriotism and hard work inspired him, and although he did not attend school for very long, he was an autodidact, teaching himself French. A member of the provincial legislature in the 1820s, he was forced into exile in Chile due to his antipathy towards the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
There he was a journalist and a teacher, and began to write.
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In 1845 he published Facundo (full title Civilizacion y Barbarie: Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga). In this work, which is Argentina’s most famous, he used the story of a warlord to subtly criticize Rosas.
The book was so well-known a