Beginning of the 20th century and the government of Rafael Reyes: a national reconstruction administration

Abstract

The article is generated in the context of the process of consultation, research and inquiry into the cause of the construction of the doctoral thesis, in the prosopographical study of General Rafael Reyes Prieto, quickly in his biography from 1849 to 1921 and its different facets : Educator, Explorer, Entrepreneur, Politician, Constituent, Military and President. It is part of the third generation of nineteenth-century Boyacá with transitional validity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the Modernist Generation, which is also chronologically called Generation 1880. It corresponds to the Boyacá born between the years 1840 and 1880, and whose generational validity or fullness manifested between 1880 and 1920, in the decades of transition to the contemporary world. Among the most representative Boyacá characters of the modernist generation, we mention the following: Rafael Reyes Prieto, Enrique Álvarez Bonilla, Adriano Páez, Diego Mendoza, Carlos Arturo Torres, Moisés Higuera, Clímaco Calderón Reyes, among others.