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2 unusual facts about Miguel Otero Silva


Luis Miquilena

As a result Miguel Otero Silva made him the central character of La Muerte de Honorio, a novel about the anti-Jiménez resistance movement.

Miguel Otero Silva

Taking advantage of the freedom of speech allowed by Gómez's successor in office, Eleazar López Contreras, Otero Silva began writing humorous poetry in newspapers, with a certain political content.


Dictator novel

In 1967 during a meeting with Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, and Miguel Otero Silva, the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes launched a project consisting of a series of biographies depicting Latin American dictators, which was to be called Los Padres de la Patria (The Fathers of the Fatherland).


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