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Jan 28, 2019 · But Carlos Castaño was particularly familiar with the workings of Medellin. He'd been a sicario , or hitman, for the cartel back in the day, while his brother, Fidel, was a full member. Hence their effectiveness as part of Los Pepes.
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Sep 19, 2012 · From his first political engagement as a young revolutionary during the Second Republic until his resignation as secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) in 1982, Carrillo’s life...
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Born on January 16th 1915, Santiago was the son of foundry worker and later well-known Socialist leader Wenceslao Carrillo who worked as a full-time official of the socialist trade union UGT and belonged to Largo Caballero’s Left faction of the Socialist Party (PSOE). Santiago was born and raised in Gijón, one of the main cities of Asturias in the ...
According to the official historiography, Santiago Carrillo joined the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) on the eve of the battle for Madrid in November 1936. However, this dubious claim was undoubtedly invented by Carrillo to blur the fact that he had been won over to Stalinism more than a year earlier. While serving his sentence in the Modelo prison ...
For a period of forty years Carrillo would not set foot on Spanish soil. He travelled to France, then to Moscow, the United States, Mexico and then France again after its liberation from the Nazis. In this period he was still a second-line leader. In 1942 the then General Secretary, José Hernández had passed away after a long illness and Dolores Ib...
The terrible defeat of the Spanish working class in the 1930s had far-reaching consequences after 1939 and it took a long time before the proletariat could recover. A few examples are enough to give a sense of the terrible plight of the Spanish workers at that time. Wages in the countryside were fixed to half of what they had been during the Republ...
In the 1970s, Carrillo strongly opposed the PSOE Socialist Party which he thought had a too leftist rhetoric, which would endanger the “transition towards democracy”. His proclaimed “tactic” was that Spain needed a “historic compromise” between conservatives and Communists. This “compromise” was entirely in the interest of the conservatives and not...
Santiago Carrillo will be remembered by Marxists as the saboteur of the marvellous Spanish Revolution of 1931-39 and the man who derailed the revolutionary period of 1976-79. But one cannot help seeing the symbolic death of Carrillo at a time when the tide is just beginning to turn. Carrillo represented Stalinism in its most degenerate, reformist, ...
Sep 22, 2012 · When he was released from prison after the victory of a new PSOE-PCE alliance known as the Popular Front in the February 1936 elections, Carrillo was invited to visit Moscow, where he was...
Shortly after he joined the Socialist Youth of Spain (JJ. SS.) And the UGT. In 1930, he studied journalism (just like his father) and began to collaborate in El Socialista and on April 14, 1931, after the Republic was proclaimed, he was entrusted with parliamentary information.
Aug 7, 2020 · During Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s, the communist leader Santiago Carrillo observed that without King Juan Carlos “the shooting would have already begun”.
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Born in Gijón, Asturias province, into the House of Carrillo, Santiago Carrillo was the son of Socialist leader Wenceslao Carrillo and María Rosalía Solares Martínez. When he was six years old, his family moved to Madrid. After attending school, he began to work in El Socialista, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) newspaper at the ...
