old job in the newspaper “La Razon. " Throughout his life, he collected valuable historical documents and information relating to Paraguay and River Plate. In 1954, he gave classes in Europe, at the Institute for Hispanic Culture invited by the Latin-American’s Graduate School. Publications His desires of communicator began with the awakening of his intelligence. In 1917, when he was ten years old and together with other classmates, he published "The guaireño", according to the people of the time, it had the characteristics of adult press. He was editor and editor of the newspaper "El liberal". He collaborated by writing articles on "La Razon" Buenos Aires, "Radical", "ABC" and "Comunidad" of Asuncion. Since 1923 until the beginning of the war with Bolivia, he published several works related to the defense of the legal rights of Paraguay in the conflict which threatened with the loss of Chaco Boreal. “El Chaco en el Régimen de las Intendencias. La creación de Bolivia”, “El Chaco y los Virreyes. La cuestión paraguayo-boliviana según documentos de los archivos de Buenos Aires y de Río de Janeiro”, “La Audiencia de Charcas y la Facultad de gobierno” “Apuntes de historia cultural del Paraguay”, are works which bear witness to the wealth and the seriousness of his arguments that took him to continental notoriety. Half of the hundred of his writings are a valuable source of knowledge for novices and experts. His collection of 13 volumes of "A hundred years ago," compilation of articles the newspaper "La Tribuna", published throughout the centennial of the epic of the 1870s, remains as testimony to undeniable great value. "The Paraguay of the Conquest," "The Colonial Paraguay”, “The roots of nationality” and “The Independent Paraguay "are eternal works which acquire greater value throughout time. In 1961, the newspaper" La Prensa "Buenos Aires conferred him the prize Alberdi - Sarmiento. Death and historical legacy His name appears among the most enlightened historians of Paraguay. Member of a hundred institutions and academies across the continent and Spain, he studied the social and historical memory of the American nations, his views being important in the formation of intellectual generations of young students and researchers. He died while a senator of Paraguay, on 10 April 1973. Notes References External links Villarik.com Villarrik Biography of Efraím Cardozo Biografías 1906 births 1973 deaths People from Villarrica, Paraguay Liberal Party (Paraguay) politicians Paraguayan historians 20th-century historians