Raúl Porras Barrenechea

Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Peruvian historian, politician and diplomat.

Raúl Porras Barrenechea was a Peruvian historian. He was born in Pisco, Peru on March 23, 1897 and died in Lima, Peru on September 27, 1960. He was a teacher at the Anglo-Peruvian School. As a student during the 1950s Mario Vargas Llosa worked with Porras for four and one-half years and learned a great deal from him.[1] Porras ran unsuccessfully for the rectorate of San Marcos University losing to Aurelio Miro Quesada.[2] Later he was elected senator representing Lima, and was selected first vice president of the Senate.[3] After that, during his second presidency of Peru, Manuel Prado Ugarteche appointed Porras foreign minister.[4] Luis Alberto Sanchez wrote the prologue to Porras's posthumous book on Pizarro which was assembled by a number of Porras's followers.[5] In 1991 when the nuevo sol [new sol] became the official currency of Peru. He appeared on the 20 S/. banknote

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  1. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 270.
  2. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 288-9.
  3. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 381.
  4. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 399-400.
  5. Mario Vargas Llosa, A Fish in the Water: A Memoir, translated by Helen Lane (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 273.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1958-1960
Succeeded by
Luis Alvarado Garrido