Ramon Rubiano, artífice de la Pereira moderna

Today, there is an immense "outstanding debt" owed to Ramón Rubiano. Without his firm executive intervention in land allocation, his decree appointing authorities in 1858, his relentless regulation of tolls on the Camino del Privilegio in 1859, and his categorical rejection of the genocidal stances of leaders like Colonel Murgueitio, the fragile "Villa de Robledo" would have been administratively and physically dismantled long before Father Cañarte could even set up his altar in the public square.