13 Facts About Marco Avellaneda

Marco Manuel Avellaneda was the governor of Tucuman Province in Argentina, and father of the Argentine President Nicolas Avellaneda.

Marco Avellaneda was executed after an unsuccessful revolt against the Federal government, and his head was displayed on a pike.

Manuel Marco Avellaneda was born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca on 18 June 1813, son of Nicolas Avellaneda y Tula, the first governor of Catamarca Province.

Marco Avellaneda learned to read and write in the Franciscan school of Father Ramon de la Quintana, who taught Latin and rhetoric.

Marco Avellaneda won an official scholarship to study at the College of Moral Sciences in Buenos Aires.

Marco Avellaneda collaborated in those years with the newspaper El amigo del pais.

Marco Avellaneda wanted to stay in Buenos Aires, but his parents called him back to Tucuman.

Marco Avellaneda had been persecuted for his journalistic activity against Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Alejandro Heredia was murdered in the countryside near San Miguel de Tucuman on 12 November 1838, and Marco Avellaneda was later accused of implication in his death.

Marco Avellaneda was a Minister in the consecutive governments of Bernabe Piedrabuena, of Pedro de Garmendia and of Gregorio Araoz de Lamadrid.

Marco Avellaneda escaped on horse, went to San Javier and continued northward, seeking to reach Jujuy Province.

Marco Avellaneda's head was exposed as a warning, stuck on a pike in the center of the Plaza Independencia.

Marco Avellaneda was given the nickname of "the Martyr of Metan".