Background
POCATERRA, José was born in December 1890 in Valencia, Venezuela. Son of Jaime D. Pocaterra and Mercedes MacPherson.
professor writer and public man
POCATERRA, José was born in December 1890 in Valencia, Venezuela. Son of Jaime D. Pocaterra and Mercedes MacPherson.
Secretary to the Ministry of Public Works (Gabinete de Concentración Nacional), 1909. Secretary to the president, and also in"mUrer general, of the State of Guárico,,1910-1911. Special agent of the Ministry of Industry and administrator of government lands (Intendente de Tierras Baldías) in Zulia, 1912.
Member of the National Legislature and president of the Chamber of Deputies.
While in office Senior Pocaterra was subjected to political imprisonment and remained incommunicado from 1919, when he was first arrested, until his escape from Venezuela in 1922. At present head of the Spanish Department of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and professor in the School of Higher Studies of the University of Montreal.
The Modern Language Association of America. Universities of Mexico and Havana. And other intellectual and university organizations of both the United States and Canada.