Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera
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Doctor Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera in 1876 when he was Minister Plenipotentiary of Guatemala in Madrid
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March 11, 1823 Guatemala City |
| Died | May 22, 1898 (aged 75) Guatemala City |
| Nickname | Don Lencho |
| Occupation | diplomat, writer, legislature, journalist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Guatemala |
| Genre | History |
| Literary movement | Liberalism and Positivism |
| Spouse | Maria de Jesus Madriz Enríquez |
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 Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica |
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In office 1856–1857 |
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica |
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In office 1870–1873 |
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| Vice-chancellor of University of Saint Thomas, Costa Rica | |
 Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala |
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| President | Justo Rufino Barrios |
Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera (March 11, 1823 – March 21, 1898) was a Guatemalan politician and lawyer. Superb leader and speaker, helped the liberal regime of Justo Rufino Barrios, served in the Guatemalan legislature, taught in the College of Law of the Universidad Nacional de Guatemala and, towards the end of his life, was a presidential candidate himself losing to general José María Reyna Barrios. He was also Foreign Secretary of Costa Rica in 1856 and from 1870 to 1873, and President of University of Saint Thomas, also in Costa Rica.
Montúfar y Rivera was the son of Rafael Montúfar y Coronado and Maria del Rosario Rivera. He was married in San José, Costa Rica on January 26, 1851, to Maria de Jesus Madriz Enriquez, the daughter of Juan de los Santos Madriz y Cervantes and Paulina Enríquez Díaz Cabeza de Baca. He graduated as a lawyer from the Pontifica Universidad de San Carlos Borromeo in Guatemala.
Member of the Liberal Party, Montúfar had a deep aversion towards then Guatemalan President Rafael Carrera and then Aycinena family that worked closely to him, and was one of their harshest critics; in spite of it, Carrera esteemed Montúfar deeply and, even though he always had Montufar at hand, never did him any harm. After Carrera rule got reinforced in 1854, Montúfar left Guatemala for Costa Rica, he was Magistrate, Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1856 to 1857 and from 1870 to 1873, and vice-chancellor of the University of Saint Thomas, where he taught international law and other subjects. He also held the position of Minister of Costa Rica in Great Britain.
In politics he was characterized by his liberal ideology and his extreme anti-clericalism, especially against the Jesuits. After the triumph of the Liberal Reform of 1871, he returned to Guatemala when Justo Rufino Barrios started his term in office in 1873. Eloquent orator and debater, was then Ambassador of Guatemala in Madrid and participated in the legislature that wrote the Constitution of 1879, in which he had outstanding participation.
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