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José Nucete Sardi | |
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| Born | (1897-08-04)August 4, 1897 Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela |
| Died | November 12, 1972(1972-11-12) (aged 75) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Alma mater | University of the Andes University of Geneva Free University of Brussels University of Columbia |
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| Spouse | Julia Salas Ruiz |
| Children | 4 |
José Nucete Sardi (August 4, 1897,Mérida – November 12, 1972,Caracas)[1] was aVenezuelan historian, journalist and diplomat. He was married to Julia Salas Ruiz, daughter of the illustrious intellectualJulio Cesar Salas, with whom he had four daughters.
He attended high school and college in the city ofMérida at theUniversidad de Los Andes (ULA), graduating with a Philosophy and Arts specialty in 1914. Later he studied at the Universities ofGeneva (Switzerland) andBrussels (Belgium) and attended free courses at theUniversity of Columbia (USA) where he also taught Latin American literature.
Nucete Sardi did considerable work as a journalist, starting as editor of the newspaperEl Universal between 1922 and 1936. He was also director ofEl Relator in 1927 and later director of the National Culture Magazine from 1940 to 1944, and the political-literary weekly magazine -Diagonal. He was a contributor toEl Nacional from its founding in 1943, as well as on its Literary Paper. He also worked onCultura Universitaria (University Culture) fromElite magazine and many other periodicals. He received numerous awards and literary prizes.
Nucete Sardi's career as a public servant includes:
Nucete Sardi was also elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly of 1945 by the state ofMérida and remained closely linked to democratization and progressive movement in his native Venezuela between 1936 and 1945. He later fought against the dictatorship ofMarco Pérez Jiménez, being one of the signatories to theManifiesto de los Intelectuales (the Intellectuals' Manifesto), which outlined strategies on the road to overthrow the dictator. For his opposition to dictatorship and democratic struggle, he suffered persecution and later went into exile.
As Venezuela's ambassador toCuba, Nucete Sardi broke relations with the dictatorship ofFulgencio Batista after PresidentCarlos Prío Socarrás was ousted. Relations were restored after the triumph of theCuban Revolution led byFidel Castro, when Nucete Sardi was again sent as Ambassador to Havana. Relations were again broken in 1961 after a tense and deteriorating with the growing concentration of power around Fidel Castro as Primer Minister overshadowed the Presidency ofManuel Urrutia Lleó. In 1962 the Government of Venezuela promoted the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States (OAS), in what became known as theBetancourt Doctrine. Political tensions and confrontations between President Betancourt and Fidel Castro kept escalating, and in 1967 the Castro regime engaged in grave violations of Venezuela’s sovereignty with the invasion ofMachurucuto, in an effort by Fidel Castro to expand communist guerrillas on the continent.
In his diplomatic work in Europe during and afterWorld War II he was a defender of the rights of theJewish people and later in promoting the creation of theState of Israel. Nucete Sardi was the firstPresident of the Committee for a Hebrew Palestine in Venezuela, and spearheaded efforts to promote the same across Latin America. In 1947, at the United Nations assembly vote to create the State of Israel, Venezuela’s AmbassadorCarlos Eduardo Stolk Mendoza, was accompanied by aHigh Level Delegation which included former founding members of the above mentioned Venezuelan Committee, such as then Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign AffairsAndres Eloy Blanco and Ambassador Nucete Sardi, then posted in Cuba.
He taught at the university level. Among the academic and cultural positions he had to perform were:
As a lecturer, he promoted a vast amount of work on the history and literature of Venezuela throughoutNew York City,Paris,Brussels,Buenos Aires,Rio de Janeiro,Havana,Tel-Aviv,La Plata andLondon.
He translated the 5th volume of the Ministry of Education's 1942 edition ofViaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente(Travel to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent), byAlexander von Humboldt into Castilian. He also translatedEl Bosquejo de Caracas (The Outline of Caracas) byRobert Semple (1964) and several original texts on the Miranda expedition of 1806.
He was also the author of biographies of heroes in theVenezuelan Jackson Encyclopedia (Buenos Aires, 1956) and in theBiographical Dictionary of Venezuela, edited by Garrido, Mosque and Co. (1953).
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