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Mar 26, 2020 · Juan José Nieto Gil, a Colombian politician, writer, and army general was the first president of African descent in Colombia. Nieto Gil was born on June 24, 1805, in Loma del Muerto, Colombia to Tomás Nicolás Nieto and Benedicta Nieto.
Juan José Nieto Gil (24 June 1804 – 16 July 1866) was a Colombian politician, Army general and writer. A Liberal party caudillo of Cartagena , he served interimly as Governor of the Province of Cartagena , and was later elected President of the Sovereign State of Bolívar from 1859 to 1864.
May 23, 2018 · Juan José Nieto was born on June 24, 1805 in Cibarco, Atlántico. Fals Borda claims that he was born at the foot of a matarraton tree while his parents Tomás Nicolás Nieto and Benedicta Gil were traveling. According to Fals Borda, Nieto Gil was a “well-built man of sallow skin or dark brown complexion, greenish eyes, a wide and straight ...
- Gonzalo Guillen
The Only Black Colombian President. Between January 25 and July 18, 1861, Juan José Nieto Gil was president of Colombia . By then, slavery had been abolished in Cartagena (in 1852) and civil liberties had been promoted in Colombia.
Aug 14, 2018 · Nieto Gil (1865-1866) was appointed President of Colombia for only six months of the United States of New Granada (as Colombia was called), from January 25 to July 18, 1861, at a time of deep political divisions.
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Jan 14, 2021 · Juan José Nieto Gil, a Colombian politician, army general and writer, became Colombia’s first president of African descent in 1861. For about seven months, he was the leader of the country or...
Born to a humble family of scarce resources, his parents were Tomás Nicolás Nieto and Benedicta Gil, a mason and candlemaker respectively, who lived in the town of Baranoa and moved to Cartagena de Indias in 1811 following the Declaration of Independence of Cartagena Province as part of the larger struggle of the South American Wars of ...
