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José Cuero y Caicedo (1735‒1815), the subject of the brief biography presented here, was born in Cali, in present-day Colombia. He was the bishop of two cities in present-day Ecuador, Cuenca in 1798‒1801 and Quito from 1801 until the year of his death. He was involved in the early part of the struggle for Ecuadoran independence. In 1809‒12, in Quito, Santa Fe, and other places in South America, criollo (of Spanish extraction but born in the New World) revolutionaries established juntas to rule, ostensibly in the name ...