![]() ![]() In 1945, Rómulo Gallegos was involved in the coup d'état that brought Rómulo Betancourt and the "Revolutionary Government Junta" to power, in the period known as El Trienio Adeco. In 1937 he was elected to Congress and, in 1940–41, served as Mayor of Caracas. ![]() He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and was appointed Minister of Public Education. He took refuge in Spain, where he continued to write: his acclaimed novels Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935) date from this period. ![]() His novel Doña Bárbara was first published in 1929, and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country. He began his work as a schoolteacher, writer, classical music enthusiast, and journalist in 1903. Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas to Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin. ![]()
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