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1. CAMILO TORRES
TENORIO

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
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01 FAMILY TREE
PREVIOUS CONTEXT EXECUTION
GRIEVANCE MEMORIAL

3. FAMILY TREE

4. José Camilo Clemente de
Torres Tenorio (November
22, 1766 – October 5, 1816)
was a Colombian politician.
He is credited as being an
early founder of the nation
due to his role in early
struggles for independence
from Spain.

6. He then moved to Santafé (now known
as Bogotá), to study jurisprudence in
the Colegio del Rosario, where he
obtained a bachelor's degree in
Canonical Law in June of 1790. He
decided to settle in Santafé, where he
opened an attorney's office.

7. Torres was part of a generation that had witnessed the Insurrection
of the Comuneros in 1781, and had experienced the independence of
the United States in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789.
Antonio Nariño had translated into Spanish the "Declaration of the
Rights of Man" in 1794, and had spread the influence of these ideas all
throughout Latin America. This translation led to Nariño being exiled,
and many of the students in the Colegio del Rosario were in turn
persecuted, including Torres.

9. Torres, however,
praised the Spanish
authority and
expressed his desire
that the colonies
would not secede.

10. In Santafé, a Junta was established
on July 20, 1810, which demanded
the creation of an open council and
independence from Spain. Among
the deputies of such council was
Camilo Torres, and he was one of
the signers in the Act of
Independence of the Supreme
Junta of Santafé.

11. BOLÍVAR
Antonio Nariño was an antagonist of Torres, who
supported federalist ideas that emphasized
autonomy for the provinces. This conflict led to
the formation of two political parties: the
centralist, and the Federalist.
The federalist formed the United Provinces of
New Granada in 1811, and Torres was appointed as
President of its congress, and then as President of
the United Provinces between 1815 and 1816.
During this period, Camilo Torres befriended
Bolívar.
The tensions between the centralist and the
federalist eventually led to a civil war. This period
of fight and chaos is called often la Patria Boba.

12. Meanwhile, king Ferdinand VII of Spain
had been restored to power and sent a
large army to quell the rebellions and
reconquer the lost colonies. The Spanish
army, commanded by General Pablo
Morillo led a violent, and successful
military campaign that culminated in the
capture of Santafé on May 6, 1816.

13. Fearing Morillo's troops, Torres escaped
near Neiva. He then tried to escape the
country by boarding a ship to Argentina
in the port of Buenaventura, but he was
captured by the troops of Juan Sámano
after the ship departed without him. He
was sent to Santafé, where he was
executed by a firing squad for treason
against the Spanish monarchy on
October 5, 1816.

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