Santiago Arcos

Santiago Mariano del Carmen Arcos Arlegui (Santiago of Chile, July 25th 1822 - Paris, September 23rd 1874) was a politician, journalist and writer Chile in.

Biography

It was the fourth and the last wire of the tradesman of Spanish origin Antonio Arcos, which had taken part as a military engineer in the fights for the Indépendance of Chile. His/her mother was a named creole Isabel Petronila Arlegui Rodríguez.

With the fall of the Supreme Director (dictator) O' Higgins in 1823, Antonio Arcos, in favor of this last, must be exiled. After a short peregrination, the family is established in Paris, where Arcos is devoted successfully to financial transactions.

Despized Santiago of the paternal will and prefers idleness being studied, alternatively attending the upper middle classes and the socialist revolutionists. It decides to return to Chile, passing by the the United States where it binds friendship with the Argentinian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Together, they go down along unintermitting American until Valparaíso.

In the Chile, it takes an active part in the political life and social of the elites and adheres to the Club of Reformed (Club of the Reform).

At the beginning of 1849, driven out by the Revolution of 1848, his/her father returns to Chile and opens the first Chilean bank: Banco of Chile de Arcos there Cía . Santiago agree to collaborate with the family company. But the unfriendly attitude of the government led to the closing of the bank in April 1850. Santiago refuses to turn over with his/her father to Paris. He survives during the months following with a thin pension when his/her father dies, leaving a considerable heritage.

With Francisco Bilbao, another Chilean with the radical ideas that he knew in Paris, he creates the Sociedad of Igualdad (Company of the Equality) the April 10th 1850. The government off-sets it in Peru then on its return, again in Argentina. It intervenes in the internal struggles of this country. In 1865, it is of return to Paris. It leaves for Spain, where he is unfortunate candidate with the delegation with Ciudad Real in January 1869, then returns finally to Paris.

Reached of a cancer of the throat, Santiago Arcos commits suicide while being thrown in the the Seine.

The Argentinian general Lucio V. Mansilla wrote Una excursión has los indios ranqueles ( an incursion at the Indians ranqueles ) while taking as a starting point the letters which his/her friend Arcos had written.

Works

Cuentos of will tierra adentro O extracto of los apuntes of a viajero (account of voyage), 1849
the utility to overcome in the localities of the Argentinian Republic
the borders and the Indians
Plata, a historical study , 1865

External bonds

Soto, Carla. '' Santiago Arcos: in the search of a fatherland… Reform and revolution, dilemmas of the decade of 1850 ''. HSAL, 6,1997

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