1. Mariano Baptista Caserta was a Bolivian politician, orator and journalist.
16 Facts About Mariano Baptista
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Mariano Baptista stood out in his youth for his talent and skills as an orator and public speaker.
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Mariano Baptista received his law degree in 1857, but never practiced as a lawyer.
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Mariano Baptista was founder and director of El Porvenir de Sucre.
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Mariano Baptista collaborated with the dictator Jose Maria Linares, whom he accompanied in his exile and death later in the year of 1861.
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Mariano Baptista's beliefs regarding the war were that Bolivia should abandon the alliance with Peru and seek an arrangement with Chile.
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Mariano Baptista participated together with Crisostomo Carrillo in the Bolivian delegation at the Arica Conference held on October 22,25 and 27,1880, in Arica aboard the American schooner Lackawanna, convened by the Secretary of State of the United States William Evarts.
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Already sworn in as president, Mariano Baptista lifted the state of siege and promulgated an amnesty that allowed the return of expatriates, including former general and president Hilarion Daza, who was assassinated upon arrival at the Uyuni railway station.
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Mariano Baptista encouraged geographical exploration and colonization, being greatly concerned about the further loss of sparsely populated territories.
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Mariano Baptista continued the works of his predecessor, especially with regard to expanding the road network, and began the construction of the Sucre government palace.
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Mariano Baptista strove to improve public education, creating new schools and setting up arts and crafts establishments under the direction of the Salesian religious order.
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Mariano Baptista founded the universities of Oruro and Potosi.
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Mariano Baptista tried to carry out a policy of rapprochement with Chile, sending Heriberto Gutierrez as plenipotentiary minister of Bolivia to Santiago, who signed, together with the Chilean Foreign Minister Luis Barros Borgono, the Treaty of May 18,1895 in which Chilean sovereignty over Antofagasta was recognized.
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Mariano Baptista signed boundary treaties with Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Peru.
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Mariano Baptista's term ended in 1896 and he was succeeded by Severo Fernandez.
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Mariano Baptista's presidency was one of the most stable in the 19th century the dominance of the Conservative Party, which was based in Sucre, would galvanize the Liberal Party, based in La Paz, which would later rise up in revolt against the government, leading to the Bolivian Civil War in 1899.