Juan García del Río explained

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.

External links

• García del Río, primer Canciller del Perú
• Biografía – Banco de la República de Colombia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Workers, liberators and exiles: Latin Americans in London since 1800 . untoldLondon . 3 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308132612/http://untoldlondon.org.uk/article/workers-liberators-and-exiles-latin-americans-london-1800 . 8 March 2012 .
2. Web site: Historia y región en el Ecuador: 1830-1930. Juan Maiguashca. Flacso Ecuador.
3. Web site: Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas - Histórico - Relación de Ministros. www.mef.gob.pe.
4. Web site: Información institucional . Embajada del Perú en el Reino Unido.