important leader of eastern Venezuela and for a short while in 1835 seized power over the new state of Venezuela.

Family

His father was the captain of the "Santiago Mariño de Acuña" militias and "Lieutenant Greater Justice of the Gulf of Paria". His mother, Atanasia Carige Fitzgerald, of Creole and Irish descent, was from Chaguaramas in the island of Trinidad,

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