Vicente Lecuna: Patriot who fought to recover the written memory of the Liberator (+birthday)

Published at: 14/09/2024 09:07 AM

On September 14, 1870, Vicente Lecuna, a Venezuelan engineer, banker, educator, politician, representative and historian, was born in Caracas, a fierce man of profound Venezuelanism, who joined José “El Mocho” Hernández, in the Queipa Revolution, in the year 1898.

Lecuna succeeded in the restoration, organization and conservation of the Simon Bolivar Archive, a task entrusted to him by the Minister of Public Education, Felipe Guevara Rojas. He also rebuilt the Liberator's Birthplace.

He was also a businessman, he presided over the Bank of Venezuela, from 1915 until his death in 1954; and from 1920 to 1930 he was President of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce.

He graduated as a civil engineer in 1889 from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and worked on the construction of the Central Railroad between Caracas and Los Valles del Tuy and the Great German Railroad, from Caracas to Puerto Cabello.

He died on February 20, 1954 in Caracas and several of his books were published by the foundation that bears his name, including: The Queipa Revolution; Bolivar and Military Art; Catalogue of Errors; Slanders in the History of Bolivar.

Mazo News Team