José Anastasio Torrens

Biography

Torres was born on 1790 in Huatusco, Veracruz, and studied in the United States along Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, son of José María Morelos. Both were part of a group of young army officers sent by the Mexican rebel to complete their education overseas. He was substituted the following year by Colonel Pablo Obregón, a veteran of the Army of the Three Guarantees, and transferred to South America, where he was appointed chargé d'affaires of Mexico to Colombia. —former agent of Vicente Guerrero in the Caribbean — through the port of La Guaira. Torrens believed Bolívar had expansionist ambitions and antagonized with republican ideals, and that same year he was accused, along both the minister plenipotentiary and future president of the United States, William H. Harrison, and the British consul, James Herderson, of supporting a revolt organized by General José María Córdova. and died three years later in Mexico City.

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