Juan Álvarez

Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez Hurtado de Luna (27 January 1790 – 21 August 1867) was a general and interim president of Mexico for a few months in 1855. He fought in all the major wars of his day, from the War of Independence through the Pastry War, the Mexican-American War, and the War of the Reform to the war against the French Intervention. A liberal reformer, a republican and a federalist, he was the leader of a revolution in support of Benito Juárez's Plan de Ayutla in 1854, which led to the deposition of Antonio López de Santa Anna from power and the beginning of the political era in Mexico's history known as La Reforma.

Youth

Juan Álvarez was born on 27 January 1790 at Santa María de la Concepción de Atoyac, now Atoyac de Álvarez, Mexico. He was a criollo of Spanish heritage. His father was a wealthy ranchero of Galician descent, from Santiago de Compostela, and his mother was from a rich family from Acapulco. Because of this, Álvarez would be known as "The Galician" during the Mexican Independence war. He studied in primary school in Mexico City, but returned to his native town at age 17 to receive his inheritance. He worked as a cowboy and in the fields.

Juan Álvarez (writer)

Juan Álvarez (born 1978) is a Colombian writer, author of Falsas Alarmas, a book of short stories awarded the National Prize for Short-Stories “City of Bogotá” in 2005. He was selected for two anthologies of Colombian short stories: Señales de ruta (Arango Editores) and El corazón habitado (Algaida). In 2011 he published his first novel C. M. no record (Alfaguara) based on the underground musical life of Bogotá and Medellín rock and roll scene.

Biography

Álvarez started his career at the prestigious Writer’s Workshop at the Universidad Central (Bogotá). In 2002 he moved to the US-Mexican border, where he earned his M.F.A from the University of Texas at El Paso. He was one of the guest writers selected to attend the first Hay Festival held in Latin America in 2006 in Cartagena de Indias. In 2008 he participated of the First Meeting of Young Latin American Fiction Writers in Havana. He has published short-stories, interviews, and essays in literary journals and magazines such us El Malpensante, Número, Etiqueta Negra, Donjuan, Letralia, and the Rio Grande Review. He is the co-editor of the Hidalgo (Mexico) based literary journal, El perro and manages the DUD project (Drogas/Urtak/Drugs:), a digital platform for the construction of participative public opinion about drugs.

Juan Álvarez (historian)

Juan Álvarez (3 September 1878 – 8 April 1954) was a judge and historian born in Gualeguaychú, province of Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Biography

Álvarez was born at a time of massive immigration in Argentina. His father, Serafín Álvarez, was an exiled Republican Spaniard; within the family, discussions about society, politics and religion were common. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Buenos Aires, where the ruling class of the time was raised. His doctoral thesis was evaluated by Bartolomé Mitre.

Since 1902, he worked at the Tribunals of Rosario, as a secretary, attorney, prosecutor and judge. He lived most of his life in this dynamic and rapidly growing city of the province of Santa Fe, and made friends within the professional and business elite, as well as firm links with other Argentine intellectuals. He was of a liberal mindset, opposed to nationalism and the tendency to worship tradition.

His first books argued that the roots of a nationality should not be sought in the old times, but in the future. This topic was especially relevant due to the wave of nationalistic pride sweeping Argentina near the centennial of its liberation from Spain (the May Revolution of 1810). In his Essay on the history of Santa Fe he went as far as claiming that Argentine history is nonexistent before 1853 (year of the framing of Constitution).

Juan Álvarez (rugby player)

Juan Miguel Álvarez Zerbino (born Montevideo, 8 July 1980) is an Uruguayan rugby union player. He plays as a lock.

Álvarez plays for Carrasco Polo Club in Uruguay.

He has 23 caps for Uruguay, since his first game at the 62-8 win over Paraguay, at 6 October 2001, in Montevideo, for the South American Rugby Championship. His most recent game was at the 29-26 loss to Russia, at 21 June 2009, in Bucharest, for the IRB Nations Cup. He scored 2 tries during his international career, 10 points on aggregate. He was called for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games, one of them as a substitute, but without scoring.

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Juan Álvarez (disambiguation)

Juan Álvarez (1790–1867) was a Mexican general and 1855 president of Mexico.

Juan Álvarez or Juan Alvarez may also refer to: