For other uses of this term, see Darío Ortiz (disambiguation).
Darío Ortiz Vidales (born in Chaparral, 1936 - Ibague, 2004) was a Colombian historian and writer.
Lawyer by profession, devoted much of his life to the exercise of politics and came to occupy important public positions in his country as Departmental Comptroller and Congressman. He directed different newspapers and weeklies as "El Cronista" (1973-1974) and the magazine "Consigna" (1988-1992). He was vice-president of the Academy of History of Tolima and his main published works were: José María Melo, Reason for a Rebel (1981) Notes for a History of Chaparral (1985), History Inside (1990), Another encounter with history (1991) and the historical novel Not all that Friday dedicated to the years before the cry of Colombian independence of July 20, 1810.
Nearly all of his work is a study of the different revolutions in Colombia such as that of the comuneros of the eighteenth century, that of independence in 1810 and that of the artisans of 1854.
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