RI VERO 



NICOLAS RIVERO 



Journalist; author; pub- 

 licist. 



Nicolas Rivero was born on the 

 twenty-third of September, 1849, in Villa- 

 Viciosa de Asturias in Spain, and there re- 

 ceived his early education, but in 1858 

 entered the Seminary of Oviedo to be 

 prepared for a career in the Church. In 

 1872, at the age of twenty-three, when he 

 was about to be ordained, he fled the Semi- 

 nary to go and fight on the side of Don 

 Carlos of Bourbon, the Pretender to the 

 Spanish Crown. In this struggle he was 

 taken prisoner and imprisoned first in one 

 Spanish jail and then in another and finally 

 exiled to the Canary Islands. There he 

 plotted an uprising to seize a warship but 

 the plan was discovered, and Rivero was 

 transported to Cuba with four hundred 

 other political prisoners to fill the ranks of 



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