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- ↑ Capitanes Generales de Venezuela en la Epoca de la Colonia. He and his Lt. Governor Juan Martinez left Spain in late summer of 1555 but were shipwrecked, Diego Mazariego Guadalfajara survived and later took his post as governor in 1556, Juan Martinez and his family drowned in the shipwreck.
- ↑ Wright, I. A. (1916). The Early History of Cuba, 1492 to 1586. New York: Macmillan. OCLC 459152005.
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