Ecuador P128c GALAPAGOS 5000 Sucres 1999 UNC

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Juan Montalvo (1832–1889) was an Ecuadorian essayist and polemicist from Ambato, famed for his fiery liberal, anticlerical critiques of authoritarian rule. A relentless opponent of presidents Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla, he spent years in exile (mostly in Colombia and later Paris), publishing searing works that helped shape Andean political thought—among them El Espectador, Siete tratados, La dictadura perpetua, and Las Catilinarias. He also penned the quixotic pastiche Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes, displaying a rich, classical Spanish style. Revered in Ecuador as a conscience of the republic, Montalvo died in Paris in 1889, his reputation secured as one of Latin America’s great liberal men of letters.

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The Cormorant, Penguin and Galapagos Tortoise from the Galápagos Islands