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Eloy Blanco Andrés Meaño
(1897—1955)

Eloy Blanco Andrés Meaño(1897—1955)

Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño was a Venezuelan poet and politician. In 1943, he married Liliana Iturbe, with whom he had two sons, Luis Felipe and Andrés Eloy Blanco Iturbe

Important Venezuelan poet, member of the Generación del 28 and founder of Acción Democrática (AD), were his parents Luis Felipe Blanco and Dolores Meaño, passes his childhood in the Margarita Island, until his transferred to Caracas in 1908, with the purpose of studying in the National School, soon enters in the Central University of Venezuela, where he graduates as lawyer in 1918. From very young showed a great literary talent, which was recognized in diverse competitions, one of his first poems "La espiga y el arado", was awarded in the Floral Games of Ciudad Bolívar in 1916, in 1921, publishes his first book Tierras que me oyeron, and in 1923, receives the first prize in a competition promoted by the Real Academia Española, in the city of Santander (Spain), to which he concurred with the poem Canto a España, which gives to him a international notoriety.

In 1928, is member of the group of university students who raised against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez (Generación del 28). By such reason, between 1928 and 1933, was jailed in La Rotunda, then he pass to the Castillo Libertador of Puerto Cabello (1933-1934). During the time that was jailed, he gave samples of a great physical strength and moral, he continued producing original writings, that soon were fixed by his sisters, when he gets sick, is confined to Valera (1935). In the lapse that was prisoner, made contact with the farmers and illiterate workers, which inspired some of his works: Barco de Piedra, Malvina Recobrada (1937), Abigail (1937) and Baedecker 2000.

In these books, he used a treatment of the reality that he denominated like colombismo, and that derived from a discoverer attitude of the poet, in contact with the Latin American reality. After the death of Juan Vicente Gómez, initiates his political career in the Partido Democrático Nacional (PDN), is elected president of the Municipal Council of the Federal District, was charter member of Acción Democrática (AD), also participates in the foundation of the humoristic weekly magazine El Morrocoy Azul (1941), deputy by the Federal District (1945) and president of the Constituent National Assembly (1946-1947), evolves as minister of Outer Relations in the Government of Rómulo Gallegos and represents Venezuela in the Assembly of the United Nations (Paris, 1948). After the overthrow of Gallegos, he goes to exile, Cuba and Mexico, where he died in an automobile accident.


Mexico, 1997, Andrés Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Bello

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1960, Andres Eloy Blanco

Venezuela, 1997, Andres Eloy Blanco

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