Policarpo toro biography
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Policarpo Toro was born November 8, 1889, the first child of Juan and Maria Toro. Juan was a low-ranking officer in the Chilean military police, and his son Policarpo followed his example. Policarpo rose quickly through the ranks, achieving the status of general and authority over his own garrison at the early age of thirty. From there, however, his career came to a staggering halt. Through a stunning combination of government politics, personal vendettas, and rumors of blackmail, it became clear to the entire southern district that Gen. Policarpo Toro wasn't going anywhere.
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History of Easter Island
Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, Easter Island (also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts,[1] and have seen their population crash on more than one occasion. The ensuing cultural legacy has brought the island notoriety out of proportion to the number of its inhabitants.
First settlers
[edit]See also: Austronesian peoples
Early European visitors to Easter Island recorded the local oral traditions about the original settlers. In these traditions, Easter Islanders claimed that a chief Hotu Matu'a[3] arrived on the island in one or two large canoes with his wife and extended family.[4] They are believed to have been Polynesian. There is considerable uncertainty about the acc
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As a result of his long years at the same post, Toro developed an almost monarch-like control over his garnison and local jurisdiction. Isla Vicuna was in his jurisdiction, and it fryst vatten his name that impowers the military police to terrorize the island. While he didn't invent the 'fish tax,' he did support his men in enforcing it.
Toro kept no immediate family with him, although he did have a daughter, Isabel. Isabel was a result of Policarpo's chance meeting with a local prostitute, around approximately 1920. A year later, deathly ill, the prostitute appeared at Toro's door, bearing the infant girl, and then promptly dies. In desperation, he turns to his brother Raul, resident of the nearby Isla Vicuna. Raul takes in the child, named her Isabel, and raised her there.
Policarpo's one hobby was geology; he's been fascinated with rocks and stones since he was a child. It is this interest that begins his part in the story of La Republica Vicuna. He died many years later, in 1968.