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Sofonías Yacup | |
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| Born | 1895 Guapi, Colombia |
| Died | 1947 Cali, Colombia |
| Occupation | Politicial, Lawyer, Jurist |
Sofonías Yacup Caicedo (1895 – 1947) was a Colombian politician, lawyer, jurist, author, and leader can be a lead-in to the subject's real, formal, or extended name. Describe the subject's nationality and profession(s) in which the subject is most notable. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field(s) of notable expertise.[1]
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Sofonías Yacup
[edit]Republished interview from same year of his death: http://blogs.elespectador.com/actualidad/republica-de-colores/sofonias-yacup-65-anos-de-su-muerte-una-vida-ejemplar-de-nuestra-democracia-reportaje-de-1947
2012. Imagine the reader who is wearing a hat.
In his last days of life, in a "modest hotel bed" in Cali, it seemed to him that his posterity would be oblivion. It was May 1947.
José Gers, the journalist who three weeks before his death did the "semi-biographical" interview that we republished today, he believed.
That in 1995, El Tiempo recalled the centenary of his birth, and in 1997, the fiftieth anniversary of his death, saved us from an "inexplicable forgetfulness."
Not to him, the great Zephaniah Yacup Caicedo, who five days before his death had written what the Rapporteur called his "Testimony of dignity and patriotism":
"I ask nothing, I complain nothing, nobody accuses me or anything personally."
But to us, because forgetting personalities like Sofonias Yacup is a bit forgetful to ourselves. Make our collective past a desert.
He left a village, Guapi, and became a jurist, politician, writer and leader. Co-director of El Diario Nacional of General Benjamín Herrera, congressman, columnist for El Tiempo, magistrate, mayor of Chocó.
That is known, is the only Colombian who has been elected deputy and parliamentarian for Cauca, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
"It served the Nation, the Pacific Coast and the Liberal Party with the most fervor, the greatest capacity and the purest disinterest," was summed up in its centenary.
He was the kind of leader we lack in the 21st century. With the qualities that the whole society admired and respected, without stopping in the color of the skin.
His books The Litoral recódito (1934) and The institution of the jury are testimony to his great versatility of thought.
Today, May 10, 65 years ago Yacup died. This was the last public conversation of his that was known.
There is enough left to give him the posterity he deserves, but it is a good gesture today that 'we remove the hat' before his memory and read it.
Daniel Mera Villamizar [although this is a simple homage, has required the collaboration of Hernando Yacup, Minerva Asprilla and Gina Betancourt]
The Rapporteur, Cali, April 22, 1947.
An exemplary life of our democracy
Sofonías Yacup, jurist and parliamentarian goes off in a modest hotel bed
The debt of gratitude to him has the Liberal Party and the Valle del Cauca. We Colombians have declined in quality. The parliamentarians of yesterday and today.
From a forgotten village to the Congress of the Republic. Memories from the bed of a noble patriot.
Report by José Gers.
Dr. Sofonías Yacup is a man who is proud of Colombian democracy. Of the most endearing popular root, he conquered the highest and most honorable positions that the republic grants to his children.
He was one of the most lively, strong and agile Colombian speakers and the sun broke with parliamentary figures in fights without story by works and realizations of the Valley of the Cauca and the Coast of the Pacific.
He always acted with spiritual height, with idealistic pugnacity, as an Alonso Quijano de Guapi.
"He left others the conquest of the saddlebags," as Guillermo Valencia once said of himself.
The disinterestedness and generosity of his battling public life is now felt when Dr. Yacup struggles in a bed, between life and death, in the silly bunk of the Astor Hotel of this city, forgotten of the liberal party to which he served so much , Of the democracy of which he is one of his cleanest blazons and of the infinite sum of friends who surrounded him when his luck was prosperous and his health was not undermined by tenacious pains.
Many times I have talked with Dr. Yacup about the fate of his country and his party. Liberalism has become a fair of rebuttals and an open circle of electoral usufruct. The Colombians of the hour are inferior to the circumstances.
With Dr. Yacup we looked back and we will notice, through a humble life, of luminous patriotism, that Colombia had days more glorious than the present ones:
Sofonías Yacup was born in Guapi (department of Cauca) in 1890.
His father, Don Juan Yacup, was a Lebanese merchant and his mother, deeply rooted in the land of Guapi, was named Felisa Caicedo.
"I spent my childhood in Guapi," says Dr. Yacup. The childhood memories hit my forehead and filled my soul with nostalgia. There I did elementary and secondary school.
The university studies, in Pasto, where the Jesuit Fathers and the Philippians, of the order of San Felipe Neri, strengthened my humanistic culture.
I studied philosophy under the direction of theologian and philosopher, presbyter Benjamin Belalcazar, "one of the few sages in the world who have been." Doctor of the College Pio Latino, eminent among the most eminent of this country and who at that time was rector of the University of Nariño.
Professional studies I did at the University of Cauca, and later I graduated in law and political science at the Universidad Libre de Bogotá.
In addition, I heard conferences of great mentalities National in the Republican University of Bogota and in the National Institute of Panama.
Did you always have the economic facilities to study?
At first, in Pasto's studies, he had easy economic means. Then my town of Guapi burned down and we were in ruin.
But my mother always encouraged me to continue studying with ardent affection. In the worst conditions I traveled from Guapi to Popayán, by the way of the "Micay", to study law in Popayán.
Since when did you enter politics?
I entered politics from the time I was a university student, in an election of deputies by Guapi. After the coalition of Valencia against Suarez, I was elected alternate deputy of Don Ezequiel Gamboa, by the province of Buenaventura.
Although the principal made me call, I could not attend the sessions. In 1921, being I abstentionist and head of the liberalism of the Valley Dr. Tomás Uribe Uribe, I was elected deputy for the province of Buenaventura.
I did not attend in the first few days. But at the insistence of my colleagues and some leading liberals, I took my place in that historic assembly, whose minority they called "childish," because the elements that made it up were quite young.
The greatest of all at that time, and who had already been in Congress, was Dr. Jose Manuel Saavedra Galindo, one of the great orators of this country and the most delicate spirits.
There was Manuel de Jesús Lucio, eminent jurisconsult; León Cruz Santos, a man of great intelligence and who has not yet given what he can give; Samuel Copete and Marcelino Valencia, two bizarre young mentalities of incessant restlessness.
The meeting, which was overthrown and during its sessions, was necessary to fight with very conservative conservatives, such as Carlos Holguín Lloreda, Mario Fernandez de Soto, Ricardo Nieto and others whom they described as "Rengifo's clique", governor of Department, who was a terrible adversary and a great knight.
He had his liberals, with whom it was also necessary to fight, because this question of conservatives having "liberals" was very widespread in the country, and when it came to types of trust, they said: "that belongs to our liberals "And gave him his favors.
Many of these "our liberals" were later leaders in liberal domination and cast into the darkness the great conductors of liberalism in their days of struggle and sacrifice.
Many of these have already died and it is not risky to think that they have influenced much to the fall of the liberal party, the executive branch of power.
Were you a deputy for other elections?
I went through the Valley, the Cauca and Nariño. For these last two I stopped attending several times because I needed other important elements. This willingness to choose me was because my father had big business on the coast of the three departments.
In their time, who went to the assemblies and Congress?
At that time the elections were made differently today, without recruitment and cultivation of delegates. The electors went to look for one because they considered it capable of serving and they gave him their confidence.
In this way they looked for me, although some believed they had set a trap to get candidacies.
What is your concept of the legislator?
My conception of the legislator was clothed with a certain mystical respect, and for that reason I felt that there were very few people who could carry out such a high office.
And, indeed, there were foundations to consider the parliament that had been attended by men of the prestige of Rafael Uribe Uribe, Luis Antonio Robles, Jose Vicente Concha, Miguel Antonio Caro, Luis Carlos Rico, Guillermo Valencia, Carlos Calderón Reyes and others who had High notion of decorum. They were primates of intelligence and knowledge and men of exemplary authority ...
In what years did you attend Parliament?
The first time, from 1922 to 1923; The second from 1923 to 1924; The third, from 1929 to 1930 and the fourth, from 1937 to 1939. But it should be noted that my representation for the Valle del Cauca was from 1923 to 1924.
On other occasions I attended the Cauca and Nariño and, as in my conception that the representative does not have his restricted functions, I worked in various places in the country with great enthusiasm and especially in the Valle del Cauca.
Hence many people are in the belief that I have been representative to Congress for the Valley many times
Do you remember some of his initiatives that became laws?
As main achievements I had to intervene very directly in the expedition of the law decreed by the Zarzal-Armenia railway, which directed the commercial current towards Cali.
That project had to endure the most ruthless attack of this great parliamentarian who was called Aquilino Villegas and the representation of Caldas.
In the Assembly of the Valley I was one of the proponents of the ordinance of the road Cali- Buenaventura, or road to the sea, which constitutes one of the maximum efforts of the Vallecaucano people.
I got little things like wireless stations, light buoys, headlights, monetary aid, the "Pizarro" sawmill, for almost all the populations of the Pacific Coast in its extension or limits from Panama to Ecuador.
I granted the usufruct of the national forests for 25 years, to be fulfilled in 1948 (the law is of 1924) to the districts of Buenaventura, Timbiquí, Guapi, Iscuandé and Mosquera. With that usufruct I thought of transforming the Pacific Coast.
In the not very strong opposition made by some representatives, it was held in the House that, given the abundance and variety of woods, fruits and plants, that conception was worth thirty million pesos.
I think that the districts did not take advantage of that resource and that it goes away extinguishing without major consequences.
I issued ordinances on the cultivation of bananas based on premiums for cultivators, on Buenaventura urbanization, etc. The banana cultivation ordinance was described as socialist.
In the company of Dr. Sixto Posso I issued the law on the National Merchant Marine, which earned me much criticism from interested people, but which I considered very necessary to maintain in the country twelve million pesos that were spent on freight and transportation, at the time In which the law was issued, which was not fulfilled.
I remember that the humorous magazine "Fantoches" caricatured me by blowing paper boats.
I asked that the "Tortugas" channel be opened, much needed for the economy of the Cauca Valley, because many people die every year.
Intervenes in the formation of the Hotel Station of Buenaventura; In the expedition of the law of its first aqueduct; In the area of population and in the reconstruction of the city, after the last fire.
I made the law to establish a great school of arts and crafts in the Pacific, located in Buenaventura, Tumaco or Guapi, but it has not been fulfilled.
With the help of Dr. Aquilino Villegas, I succeeded in getting the House to approve the customs tariff, that is, Law 62 of 1931, based on the project of the technician Hansserman, who had spent a few years in the House.
With this rate, despite its defects, the country was transformed and national work valued.
It would be lengthy to speak of other laws that I had approved and with which important works have been done in several cities of this department.
Do you consider parliament effective?
Parliament is decadent today in both its function and its officials and this imbalance should not continue because it is causing many ills to democracy.
Formerly the parliament was synthesized by its effectiveness, by the responsibility of its members, by the sense of responsibility of the same, by the mastery of the public affairs and the desire to know them.
There was the certainty that this eminent position could not all come. Today is a common thing. If Juan goes to parliament, why can not Pedro go? In order to form a conscience in this respect, it is enough to read the admonitions of the leaders of the Chambers by the non-concurrence of their members.
But the republic must be saved, so that the first manifestation of democracy occupy its proper place.
Dr. Yacup, tired, speaks, however, with the warmth of the things of the country. He has exhausted himself in the service of her. He was intendant of the Chocó, magistrate of the Superior Court of Customs, judge of the Circuit of Guapi, director of the Commercial School and Administrative Career of Cali.
He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Jurisprudence; Was a member of the former Free University Center of the Free University, Doctor Honoris Causa, member of the Center for Historical and Social Studies "Pascual de Andagoya" of Buenaventura.
He has led numerous political committees, etc. It has been a fruitful life like the most, but everything has given to its fellow men.
He wrote a book on eloquence and fervor that is called "Litoral Recondo" on the Pacific Coast.
Another that is called "The Institution of the Jury" and currently finishes a story about the "Pacific Coast". He has to publish his Letters and Political and Sociological Discourses ...
What else?
After all, adds Dr. Yacup, I realize that things are almost where I started. The greatest passion of my life, which is the Pacific Coast, remains as forgotten and backward as twenty years ago ...
And the chronicler notes:
Yes, Dr. Yacup: his luck and that of his beloved Coast of the Coast, poor and forgotten, is very similar to his own life .... For the coast and for you there is only unexplained forgetfulness.