Guillermo Ascanio

Guillermo Ascanio (1907–1941) was a Communist Party of Spain politician. He fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. After the victory of the Nationalists, he was executed by the government of Francisco Franco in Madrid.[1]

Biography

He was born in the Gomera town of Vallehermoso[2] on 30 October 1907. Ascanio studied industrial engineering in Germany,[3] later returning to Spain. He would join the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), within which he would carry out intense work. Along with José Miguel Pérez, he was one of the main figures of the Communist Party in the Canary Islands.[4] He published several articles in Spartacus[3] (the publication of the Federación de Trabajadores de La Palma (Federation of Workers of La Palma)) in some of which he came to defend the independence of the Canary Islands with respect to Spain, describing the political-economic situation of the archipelago as "semi-colonial".

References
  1. Michael Alpert (2013). The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939, Cambridge University Press, pág. 324
  2. Ricardo García; Juan Manuel Torres (1986). Vallehermoso «el fogueo». Toma de conciencia popular, resistencia y represión, 1930-1942 (in Spanish).
  3. Miguel Suárez Bosa (1995). Economía, sociedad y relaciones laborales en Canarias (in Spanish).
  4. Carlos Fuentes (2008). Los últimos de Cuba (in Spanish).
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