Jaime de Zudáñez (25 July 1776, in Chuquisaca[1] – 1832, in Montevideo) was a Bolivian politician and hero of the independence of three countries in South America.
Zudáñez was born in the city of La Plata, Chuquisaca, in present-day Bolivia.
He was central to the independence movement that started in Chuquisaca on May 25, 1809, when after being arrested on suspicions of conspiracy, he publicly cried for help while being conducted to jail.
[2] The Colonial authorities, after the recapture of the city, sent him as a prisoner to Callao, in Peru.
From there, three months later, and after being liberated, he travelled to Chile (1811), where he worked with Generales Bernardo O'Higgins and Juan Mackenna, and became a friend of José Miguel Carrera.