Miguel Antonio Caro

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Miguel Antonio José Zoilo Cayetano Andrés Avelino de las Mercedes Caro Tobar (10 November 1843 – 5 August 1909) was a Colombian scholar and politician. Though he never used the title of President, but the one of Vice President of Colombia in charge of the Executive authority from 1894-1896 and 1896-1898., by respect to his mentor Rafael Núñez, whose illness forced him to cede day-to-day power.

Born in Bogotá, his father José Eusebio Caro was a founder of the Colombian Conservative Party whose criticisms of President Lopez led to his exile to New York City. ^[1]

Caro was a well regarded classicist who published several notable Latin translations.

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• The 1893 Bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogota. D Sowell - Journal of Latin American Studies, 1989
• Limits of Power: Elections Under the Conservative Hegemony in Colombia, 1886-1930. E Posada-Carbo - The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1997
• Rodríguez-García, José María "The Regime of Translation in Miguel Antonio Caro's Colombia." diacritics - Volume 34, Number 3/4, Fall-Winter 2004, pp. 143-175
• The Political Economy of the Colombian Presidential Election of 1897. CW Bergquist - The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1976