When Potracio Ferrer was born in 1918, in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela, his father, Jose de Jesus Unda, was 30 and his mother, Ana Rebeca Ferrer, was 37. He died on 28 December 1996, in his hometown, at the age of 78.
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Venezuela was the world's largest exporter of oil.
President Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela's first democratically elected leader, is overthrown within eight months of his election in a military coup led by Marcos Perez Jimenez, who forms a government with backing from the armed forces and the U.S.
The Caracas Convention established ground rules for political sanctuary in Latin America.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Francisco, Miguel, Juan, Jorge, Carlos, Angel, Pedro, Roberto, Manuel, Ramon.
Catalan and southern French: from Latin ferrarius ‘ironworker, blacksmith’, either an occupational name or from the same word as an old personal name. This is the commonest Catalan surname.
English: variant of Farrar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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