Juan García del Río

Colombian diplomat, writer and politician

Juan García del Río (Cartagena de Indias, 1794 – Mexico City, 1856) was a Colombian diplomat, writer and politician.^[1]

He was Minister of Finance of Ecuador from 1832 to 1834.^[2] He was Minister of Finance of Peru in 1836, 1836-1837, and 1837-1838,^[3] also serving as its first ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1822.^[4]

Besides his political work he also translated a play Pizarro, written by the Irishman Richard Brinsley Sheridan which was eventually published in Valparaíso, Chile in 1844.

References

^ "Workers, liberators and exiles: Latin Americans in London since 1800". untoldLondon. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^ Juan Maiguashca. "Historia y región en el Ecuador: 1830-1930". Flacso Ecuador.
^ "Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas - Histórico - Relación de Ministros". www.mef.gob.pe.
^ "Información institucional". Embajada del Perú en el Reino Unido.

External links

García del Río, primer Canciller del Perú^{[permanent dead link]}
Biografía – Banco de la República de Colombia Archived 29 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine