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Manuel José Leonardo Arce Leal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Manuel José Leonardo Arce Leal (1935–1985) was a Guatemalan poet and dramatist.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Manuel, José and Leonardo providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Manuel José Leonardo Arce Leal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.