Augusto Coello Explained

Augusto Constantino Coello Estévez (1 September 1884 in Tegucigalpa – 8 September 1941 in San Salvador) was a Honduran writer.

Biography

Coello became a deputy in the Honduras National Congress in 1904. He was director of various newspapers, El Imparcial, En Marcha and Pro-Patria in Honduras and La Prensa Libre, La República, El Diario, El Pabellón Rojo y Blanco in Costa Rica.

He wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Honduras in 1915 and wrote two books, El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos (1923)^[1] and Canto a la bandera (1934). His son, also named Augusto Coello, was a writer as well.^[2]

Bibliography

• El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos (1923)
• Canto a la bandera (1934)

Notes and References

1. Book: Pan American Union. https://books.google.com/books?id=kq8bAAAAMAAJ&dq=Augusto+Coello&pg=PA661. Bulletin of the Pan American Union. Union of American Republics. 1938. Washington, D.C.. 661. en. Notes on Inter-American Books and Libraries.
2. Book: Euraque, Dario A.. https://books.google.com/books?id=6FxulC7gMlMC&dq=Augusto+Coello&pg=PA163. Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-state: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Duke University Press. 1998. 978-0-8223-2218-4. Chomsky. Aviva. Durham and London. 163. en. The Banana Enclave, Nationalism and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s - 1930s. Lauria-Santiago. Aido.