Talk:Benjamin Saldaña Rocca

Regarding gaps of information, 1880-1907, 1907-1912.
There is very little written (digitally accessible) information about Saldaña’s time in Iquitos between 1880-1907. Minimal information is written about his time in the military, except for the battles he fought in, and the coincidence that Manuel Prada fought at one of them. Prada was also an influential writer who campaign against Peru’s oligarch, which apparently Saldaña did as well in his newspaper, El Fòsfero. El Fòsfero was an anti clerical newspaper that used caricatures similar techniques to Saldaña’s later newspaper, La Felpa.

This website claims that Saldaña’s “La Sotana” newspaper exposed the scandal of Peru’s finance minister, "Mariano A. belaúnde“ embezzling funds in 1900. I can not find the newspaper itself and this seems to be the only source claiming it, unless that information comes from “Benjamín Saldaña Rocca: Prensa y denuncia en la Amazonía cauchera” which I haven’t read and have no access to.

https://herbertmujicarojas.lamula.pe/2021/02/03/el-valiente-periodista-benjamin-saldana-rocca/herbertmujicarojas/

Mario Llosa Varga gives a source for Saldaña getting physically assaulted, his printing press destroyed, and then kicked out of town. However this source comes from a blog, that has no sources itself! I have refused to include this information until I can find a more credible source. If any one else has an idea on how to properly include information from “The Dream of the Celt” or “Nájar’s biography of B. Saldaña Rocca” feel free to do so.

https://breac.nd.edu/articles/history-and-imagination-in-the-dream-of-the-celt-by-mario-vargas-llosa/

There is also very little information regarding his murder, which apparently occurred at the hands of a Chilean. Arawoke (talk) 15:41, 27 September 2023 (UTC)