Justo Pastor Benítez
{{Short description|Paraguayan writer and politician (1897–1963)}}
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Justo Pastor Benítez (28 May 1897 — 7 February 1963) was a Paraguayan historian, writer, and Liberal politician.
Biography
On 28 May 1897, Benítez was born in Asunción.{{cite journal |last=Garcés |first=Julián |title=Justo Pastor Benitez (1897-1963) |journal=Revista de Historia de América |date=1963 |issue=55/56 |pages=181–182 |jstor=20138570 |issn=0034-8325}}
In the Liberal Party, he formed a group with {{ill|Carlos Pastore|es}}, R. Antonio Ramos, Efraím Cardozo, and Julio César Chaves.{{cite journal |last=Sansón Corbo |first=Tomás David |title=Carlos Pastore y "el general de la virgen espada". Memoria y destino nacional en Paraguay. |journal=Revista de Historia de América |date=23 July 2020 |issue=159 |pages=165 |doi=10.35424/rha.159.2020.643 |issn=2663-371X |via=ProQuest|doi-access=free }} In May 1932, as Foreign Minister and responding to Carlos Saavedra Lamas (the Argentine foreign minister)'s inquiry on Paraguayan intentions in the Chaco War, Benítez demanded that Bolivia adhered to the law of war and that the League of Nations monitored the conflict fairly.{{cite news |title=PARAGUAY REPEATS THREAT.; But Expresses Readiness to Observe War Rules if Foe Will. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/01/archives/paraguay-repeats-threat-but-expresses-readiness-to-observe-war.html |work=The New York Times |date=1 June 1934}} In June 1934, Benítez was replaced as, like his predecessor Daniel Sánchez Bustamante, he advocated for a peaceful resolution to the conflict; he switched posts with Rogelio Ibarra,{{cite news |last=White |first=John W. |title=PEACE ADVOCATE QUITS IN PARAGUAY; Foreign Minister Forced Out by Advocacy of Arbitration of Chaco Dispute. A PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT But 40-Year-Old Pastor Benitez Lost Prestige by His Pacific Speech at Montevideo. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/27/archives/peace-advocate-quits-in-paraguay-foreign-minister-forced-out-by.html |work=The New York Times |date=27 June 1934 |via=ProQuest}} remaining in Rio de Janeiro for the remainder of the conflict. In October 1938, he rejected the ambassadorship to Bolivia under Félix Paiva as a part of the Liberal refusal to join Paiva's proposed coalition.{{cite news |title=POLITICAL TURMOIL RISES IN PARAGUAY; Minister-Designate to Bolivia Rejects Acceptance of Post |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/10/31/archives/political-turmoil-rises-in-paraguay-ministerdesignate-to-bolivia.html |work=The New York Times |date=31 October 1938 |via=ProQuest}}
In the late 1950s, he resided in Brazil. By then, he had served in various Liberal positions including national deputy, party director, and cabinet minister.{{sfn|Barager|1959|pp=623–624}}
Works
- {{cite book |title=Bajo el signo de Marte |date=1934}} (on the Chaco War){{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Willis Knapp |title=Literature of the Chaco War |journal=Hispania |date=1938 |volume=21 |issue=1 |page=46 |doi=10.2307/332424 |jstor=332424 |issn=0018-2133}}
- {{cite journal |title=La Revolucion Paraguaya del 15 de mayo de 1811: Ensayo de interpretacion |journal=Revista de Historia de América |date=1957 |issue=43 |pages=114–128 |jstor=20137149 |issn=0034-8325}}
- {{cite book |last=Cardozo |first=Efraím |title=El Paraguay colonial: las raíces de la nacionalidad |date=1959 |publisher=Ediciones Nizza |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYgYAAAAYAAJ}} (prologue){{cite journal |last1=Warren |first1=Harris G. |title=Review of El Paraguay colonial. Las raíces de la nacionalidad. |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |date=1960 |volume=40 |issue=3 |page=447 |doi=10.2307/2509968 |jstor=2509968 |issn=0018-2168}}
- {{cite journal |title=El Colorido Folklore Paraguayo |journal=Journal of Inter-American Studies |date=1963 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=371–377 |doi=10.2307/165132 |jstor=165132 |issn=0885-3118}}
=Undated=
- La constitución de 1870
- Ensayo sobre el liberalismo
- La vida del doctor Francia
- Los comuneros del Paraguay
- La cuenca del Plata
- Estigarribia, el soldado del Chaco
- El solar guaraní
- Carlos Antonio López
- La revolución de Mayo en Paraguay
- Mancebos de la tierra
See also
Sources
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=Bibliography=
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- {{cite journal |last=Barager |first=Joseph R. |title=The Historiography of the Río de la Plata Area Since 1830 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |date=1959 |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=588–642 |doi=10.2307/2510383 |jstor=2510383 |issn=0018-2168}}
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Category:Writers from Asunción
Category:Politicians from Asunción
Category:Paraguayan historians
Category:20th-century historians
Category:20th-century Paraguayan male writers
Category:20th-century Paraguayan writers
Category:20th-century Paraguayan politicians
Category:Liberal Party (Paraguay) politicians
Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Paraguay