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Froylán Turcios (July 7, 1875 – November 19, 1943) was a Honduran writer, journalist and politician....

Froylán Turcios

Honduran politician

Froylán Turcios (July 7, 1875 – November 19, 1943) was a Honduran writer, journalist and politician.

He is considered one of the most important Honduran intellectuals of the early 20th century.

Froylán Turcios (July 7, 1875 – November 19, 1943) was a Honduran writer, journalist and politician.

When Froilan Turcios was born in 1835, his father, Luis Francisco Turcios, was 31 and his mother, Anastacia Romero, was 26.

Froylán Turcios (July 7, 1875 – November 19, 1943) was a Honduran writer, journalist and politician.

Froylan Turcios High School in Tocoa, Colón is the second project Water2Life is engaged in while in Honduras.

Froylán Turcios, 1874 - 1943 Froylán Turcios was born on July 7 1874, in Juticalpa.

Background and political roles

He was born in Juticalpa, Olancho. He was Minister of Interior, Member of the National Congress of Honduras and delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva.

He was private secretary of guerrilla Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua, a personal friend of Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Molina and many other intellectuals and philosophers.

Writing activities

He directed the Tegucigalpa daily paper El Tiempo and founded the journals, El Pensamiento (1894), Revista Nueva (1902), Arte y Letras (1903) and Esfinge (1905), among others.

In Guatemala he published the newspapers El Tiempo ( 1904),El Domingo (1908) and in Honduras El Heraldo (1909), El Nuevo Tiempo (1911), and Boletín de La Defensa Nacional (1