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José Palacios | |
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| Born | c. 1770 Capaya, Captaincy General of Venezuela, Spanish Empire |
| Died | c. 1845 (approx. 75) Cartagena, Colombia or Caracas, Venezuela |
José Palacios (c. 1770 – c. 1845) was a Venezuelan servant who served as Simón Bolívar's aide-de-camp from 1792 until the latter's death in 1830.
Biography
editPalacios was born a slave on a hacienda in Capaya, owned by the maternal side of Simón Bolívar's family. Following the death of Bolívar's mother in 1792, ownership of Palacios was given to Bolívar, who made him his aide-de-camp. Palacios accompanied Bolívar during his campaigns to liberate South America from Spanish rule, and Bolívar was known to hold him in high esteem.[1][unreliable source?] Bolívar left Palacios 8,000 pesos in his will.[2][unreliable source?]
Following Bolívar's death in 1830, Palacios's life went almost entirely unrecorded, although he may have moved to Cartagena or Caracas with a black woman named Matea, whom he lived with in poverty. He was reportedly in attendance for the reburial of Bolívar's remains in Venezuela in 1842.[1] In his novel The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez places Palacios's date of death sometime in 1845.[3]
Legacy
editPalacios is featured as a major supporting character in Gabriel García Márquez's 1989 novel The General in His Labyrinth.[3]
References
edit- 1 2 Carirubana, Sociedad Bolivariana-Municipio (sábado, 21 de enero de 2012). "Sociedad Bolivariana del Municipio Carirubana: José Palacios, "El fiel mayordomo del Libertador"". Sociedad Bolivariana del Municipio Carirubana. Retrieved 2026-07-05.
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- 1 2 García Márquez, Gabriel (1989). The General in His Labyrinth. New York: Vintage.
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