[Eng+Spa] Natalicio de Rómulo Gallegos + Birth of Romulo Gallegos

Thanks to a message posted by Michele Castelli on his Twitter account, I learned that today is the anniversary of the birth of Rómulo Gallegos, #writer, novelist and Venezuelan politician. His full name was Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire, but one got more used to his short version, with which he also made his works known throughout the world. If one notices, he had 3 names, which is not frequent, but it can be found in some families that have this as a tradition, where the third name is a religious dedication or consecration (in this case: Mount Carmel), like this which are usually Christian Catholic families in which we can find such a peculiar custom, now quite out of use.
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Gallegos is still considered the most outstanding Venezuelan novelist of the 20th century, his work is part of the realistic trend, although personally I wonder if he would not rather have a bucolic touch in some of his works, in addition to his use of characters to represent stereotypes present in the Venezuelan reality, but projectable to the reality of Latin America, would lead us to think that there is another level of discourse in his work, one that alludes to the symbolism that these characters seem to evoke.

The works of #Gallegos have become classics of Latin American literature, but it was not only in the literary field where he stood out, he was also a politician who managed to reach the presidency of the Republic of Venezuela, in fact, he was the first president in the 20th century to win an election directly, secretly and universally for the Venezuelan people, and he was also the President of the Republic who has obtained the highest percentage of votes in his favor in elections held in this country in all times, it obtained 80% of all the votes counted.

Despite this overwhelming success in the electoral campaign and the voting, 9 months into his presidency, he was overthrown by a military coup that established a Military Junta Government and opened the door to the establishment of a Military Dictatorship that lasted for several years.

Well, I got a bit distracted, what I wanted to highlight was his birthday and the importance of his election as the first civilian president of Venezuela in the 20th century.
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