Joaquín Crespo

Joaquín Crespo
Portrait by Martín Tovar y Tovar
President of Venezuela
In office 26 April 1884 – 15 September 1886
Preceded by	Antonio Guzmán Blanco
Succeeded by	Antonio Guzmán Blanco
President of Venezuela
In office October 7, 1892 – February 28, 1898
Preceded by	Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido
Succeeded by	Ignacio Andrade
Personal details
Born	22 August 1841 San Francisco de Cara, Aragua
Died	16 April 1898 (aged 56) La Mata Carmelera, Cojedes
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Jacinta Parejo
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Joaquín Sinforiano de Jesús Crespo Torres (Spanish pronunciation: [xoaˈkin simfoˈɾjano ðe xeˈsus ˈkɾespo ˈtores]; 22 August 1841 – 16 April 1898) was a politician, soldier, a member of the Great Liberal Party of Venezuela and President of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and again from 1892 to 1898. During the second Joaquín Crespo regime, the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 saw Venezuela's longstanding dispute with Great Britain about the territory of Guayana Esequiba, which Britain claimed as part of British Guiana and Venezuela saw as Venezuelan territory, come to a head. An international arbitral panel ultimately awarded most of the territory to Britain. Crespo was killed in battle.^[1]

References

1. Shaw, Albert (1898). "Obituaries". The American Monthly Review of Reviews (New York: The Review of Reviews Co.): 539.

External links

• Works by or about Joaquín Crespo at Internet Archive