Their activism eventually helped to end the Conservative Partys grip on the government and, in 1933, led to the passage of university reforms, which gave students the right to elect their own rectors and have a representative in the legislature to act as their advocate a position Arciniegas held for a time.įor him, students were the axis around which all political and intellectual movements had turned throughout history.ĭuring this time, he founded the Caro and Cuervo Institute and moved the Colombian National Museum to its current home in a former prison building. He narrowly missed being killed when a bullet grazed his head at one student rally.
His love of journalism led him to establish and manage numerous cultural magazines throughout his life. While a student he founded and managed the magazine Universidad (1921). It was there, amid the dangers of the jungle, that Germns mother was born. Luz, the younger daughter, was married to a Cuban engineer who went to Colombia to help build a railroad line.
Both of Peruchos daughters fled the country when he was executed.
