José Núñez de Cáceres

(1772-1850)

Dominican writer and politician

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José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor (March 14, 1772 in Santo Domingo – September 11, 1846 in Ciudad Victoria) was a Dominican politician and writer. He is better known for being the leader of the independence movement against Spain in 1821 and the only President of the short-lived Republic of Spanish Haiti, which lasted only from December 1, 1821 to February 9, 1822. This period is also known as the Ephemeral independence because it quickly ended two months later with the Unification of Hispaniola under the Haitian government. Shortly before these events, while Spain exercised a perfunctory rule over the east side of Hispaniola, Núñez de Cáceres pioneered the use of literature as a weapon for social protest and anti-colonial politics. He was also the first Dominican and criollo fabulist, and one of the first criollo storytellers in Spanish America. Many of his works appeared in his own satirical newspaper, El Duende, the second newspaper created in Santo Domingo.

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Born	14 March 1772 Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo.
Died	1 September 1850 (aged 78) Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Zodiac	Pisces
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