sentences:  In 1896, in the days when Reyes had chances to be presidential candidate, Caro decided to send him off to Paris as the Ambassador of Colombia, which kept him away from the presidential race in the 1898 presidential elections; and also interfering with his involvement in the "War of a" Thousand Days' War.Since 1902 Reyes lived in Mexico while arranging and setting up everything for the 1904 presidential elections.In 1904, José Manuel Marroquín president gave him the task to put together an army of one hundred thousand volunteers to battle and win back Panamá.