Carlos Gutiérrez was a Honduran diplomat and writer (Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa

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 Honduras

Honduras

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 1818 - San Sebastián

San Sebastián

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, Spain

Spain

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 1882). From 1848 on, he worked for several Centroamerican countries in the United States of America

United States

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 and England

England

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. In 1873 he was sent to Spain to communicate Costa Rica and Guatemalan governments recognition to the Spanish Republic. In 1878 he saw his book on Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas O.P. was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians"...

 published, with a preface by Spanish former prime minister Emilio Castelar.