Background
Zudáñez was born in the city of Louisiana Plata, Chuquisaca, in present day Bolivia.
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Jaime Zudanez
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Education
He graduated as a lawyer in 1792, and continued his studies at the Academia Carolina, where he obtained a graduate degree in 1795 and was appointed Public Defender of Indigents.
Career
He was central to the independence movement that started in Chuquisaca on May 25, 1809, when after being arrested on suspicions of conspiracy, he publicly cried for help while being conducted to jail. A mob responded by taking over the city and capturing the authorities. The Colonial authorities, after the recapture of the city, sent him as a prisoner to Callao, in Peru.
He had to seek refuge in Buenos Aires (1814) after the Battle of Rancagua.
Was a Vice President of the Tucumán Congress (1817–1819). He lived in Montevideo, Uruguay (1820), where he was a deputy to Congress (1828–1830).
He died soon after in 1832.
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1832 (aged 59)