Gutierrez de la Fuente, Antonio: [Peru]:

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MANIFIESTO DEL JENERAL LA-FUENTE. The extended and quite rare manifesto of Peruvian revolutionary and former president Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente, published during his brief exile in Chile in order to defend his administrative and personal conduct from detractors at home. Gutiérrez was born in Huantajaya, Peru (now part of Chile), and supported Simón Bolívar during the 1823 revolution. After independence he became governor of Arequipa until 1826, when he joined with Agustín Gamarra in a coup. Gutiérrez held the presidency briefly before it was handed to Gamarra, and remained under his co-conspirator as Vice President until 1831. Not unlike Santa Anna in Mexico, Gamarra maintained an active role as a general and frequently left the capital on military excursions, leaving Gutiérrez as acting President. The sometimes-president clearly made no friends on these occasions, and his unpopular support for foreign-manufactured goods was leveraged in yet another coup – in 1831, Gutiérrez was forced to flee the capital across the rooftops and seek asylum on board an American ship anchored in the harbor, later ending up in Venezuela. He returned to Peru for the Civil War of 1834 and, despite fighting for the winning side, was quickly exiled once again once peace returned. He and former comrade Gamarra (now out of power himself) participated in several invasions of Peru from Chile in the next years, until in 1839 they were once again in power.This manifesto dates from Gutiérrez's first

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