Mariano Abril
| Mariano Abril y Ostalo | |
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| Member of the Puerto Rico Senate from the Guayama district |
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In office 1917–1920 |
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May 25, 1861 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Died | December 5, 1935 (aged 74) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Political party | Union of Puerto Rico |
| Profession | Politician |
Mariano Abril y Ostalo (1861−1935) was a Puerto Rican politician. He served as a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1917 to 1920.
Mariano Abril y Ostalo was born on May 25, 1861 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
During his youth, he worked as a notary clerk while writing for El Palenque de la Juventud under the pseudonym of "Florete". In 1888, he founded La Linterna, a magazine that was censored by the government. He then worked for El Clamor del País, a San Juan political newspaper. He also collaborated for La Democracia, another newspaper which he ended up directing in 1895.
In 1896, after attacking the government in his newspaper, he was convicted to prison by a War Council. However, he fled to France where he stayed for a while. He then moved to Madrid, where he was detained and jailed for several months. After receiving a pardon from the Ministry of Overseas, Don Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, he remained in Madrid for three years collaborating for the newspapers El Globo, El Heraldo, and El Liberal.
Abril y Ostalo then moved to Venezuela and then to United States. When the Spanish–American War ended in 1898, he returned to Puerto Rico and joined Luis Muñoz Rivera in his political fight. He became a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives in 1904, and then of the first Senate of Puerto Rico in 1917, representing the District of Guayama. He was again reelected in 1920, this time as a Senator at-large.
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