Carlos López Bustamante

Carlos López Bustamante (1890–1950) was a Venezuelan journalist. He was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890 and died in Chicago, USA in 1950. He was known for his fierce opposition to the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez from the pages of Diario El Fonógrafo newspaper. López Bustamante was the son of journalist Eduardo López Rivas, editor and owner of the Maracaibo newspaper, Diario El Fonógrafo, the magazine El Zulia ilustrado and the publishing house Imprenta Americana. His mother was Doña Carmen Bustamante López, niece of Venezuelan physician Francisco Eugenio Bustamante and a descendant of General Rafael Urdaneta. Doña Carmen died when Carlos was only a child.

López Bustamante’s adolescence and youth were spent in the shadow of his father, a Venezuelan intellectual, who was in charge of embedding in his children a love for culture, knowledge and freedom. From his early youth López Bustamante began working in the family business, Imprenta Americana (The American Press), owned by Eduardo López Rivas. There he received training and professional ethics, actively participating in the civilizing crusade which was led by his father in the young Venezuelan republic.

López Bustamante married Maria Emilia Lares Echeverria in Maracaibo. She was a young descendant of Rafael Maria Baralt. Maria Emilia was the daughter of one of López Bustamante father's best friends, the Zulian photographer Arturo Lares Baralt. Maria Emilia Lares Echeverria and Carlos López Bustamante had twelve children. López Bustamante died in 1950 at the age of sixty, in the city of Chicago, USA. His remains were later transferred to the city of New York, his final resting place.

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