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Barrios, appointed him Consul of Guatemala in Berlin, but when he arrived in Europe, the Consul in France informed him that his credentials had been withdrawn during the crossing and he practically evicted him from the consulate. Reina Barrios returned to the United States, where he met his future wife Algeria Brenton, who was 17 years old, had a distinguished family from Virginia, and worked as a vedette in New Orleans, Louisiana Algeria Benton and José María Reyna Barrios married on 17 May 1886. During these trips, Reina Barrios learned to speak English and French properly and write German correctly. In 1887, after returning to Guatemala, he assumed the vice presidency of the National Legislative Assembly and later in 1889, he was imprisoned by the government of President Barillas for his alleged participation in the revolutionary movements of Mataquescuintla, until the Superior Council of War decreed his freedom when proven innocent; while he was in prison, his wife Algeria Benton had to ask for help from Minister Antonio Batres Jáuregui so that he could bring food to Reina Barrios.
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General Salvador Toledo, Queen's Chief of Staff, and to whom insistently He was accused of being implicated in the president's murder. Its luxurious residence located on the Paseo 30 de Junio, Villa Algeria, was abandoned for a long time. She left with a baby in her arms, whom she named Consuelo. She returned to New Orleans, and began to abuse alcohol and recreational drugs, eventually to be arrested in London and New York, accused of intoxication. Her relationship with her daughter was so distant that the New Orleans Times Picayune reported that the widow had abandoned her daughter on the steps of the Magdalena church in Paris. As a result of the poor health of the widow, in addition to her drug addiction and alcoholism, Consuelo was admitted to a convent in the city of London, on the orders of the Minister of Guatemala in London, José Tible, brother of the mother of Guatemalan chronicler Enrique Gómez Carrillo, who coincidentally, would also be Guatemala's consul in Hamburg. For the new year of 1910, Algeria Benton entered the
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Algeria Benton lived her last years in New Orleans and died April 20, 1915, while visiting friends in Biloxi, Mississippi. By then, Consuelo had already returned to Guatemala, and there she became seriously ill with Spanish influenza after the earthquakes of 1917 and 1918 and was sent to New Orleans, United States in 1918, because her grandmother, C.B. Wheeler There she died on June 8, 1919, without having recovered from her illness.
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As a formal position, Algeria de Reyna held the post of First Lady of
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After the death of her husband, Algeria Benton lost her mind and returned to the United States leaving unresolved issues in
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