Ocaña Fernando Vázquez

On the centenary of

FERNANDO V? Zquez OCAÑA

(1910-1966)

"The Popular Front is based on the continuity of the State

democratic and constitutional, but also involves the design, and

This is the most original of our revolution that parties

and trade union bodies have sufficient margin to

experience their own conceptions, confronting them with the

lesson of the day. ?

Fernando Vazquez. Time in Spain.

VOICE Garces's first biographer? A LORCA

On May 10, 1930, the newspaper La Voz de Córdoba was reporting that the police had caught four in the morning to D. Joaquín García Hidalgo, D. Antonio Hidalgo Cabrera, D. Enrique Moreno Rodriguez and D. Ocaña Fernando Vazquez when they were trying to destroy the label of Jose Cruz Conde Street. As you know, Jose Cruz Conde was a fascist military, appointed mayor of Córdoba in the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, and one of the principal architects of the military uprising in Córdoba. Joaquín García Hidalgo was a journalist, Freemason and socialist deputy, assassinated a few days of the military rebellion of General Franco. Antonio Hidalgo Cabrera, a lawyer, was head of the Socialist minority of the City of Córdoba and later an independent council. Enrique Moreno Rodriguez was a sculptor, known as "The Phenomenon?, Professor at the School of Arts and Crafts of Cordoba, was assassinated in September 1936. Fernández Vázquez, poet, journalist and socialist deputy, wrote the first biography of Federico García Lorca, died in exile.

Ocaña Fernando Vazquez was born in Baena, Córdoba, in 1910 and died in Mexico in 1966. He moved to the capital of Cordoba was very young and worked in an office while studying. Collaborated in the Journal of Córdoba and being appointed editor in chief of Andalusia, turned professional in journalism. He founded and directed the political advertising and the South. He was a member of the gathering of coffee confectionery Pearl, which stood by, among others, the leading bookseller Rogelio Diaz Luque, the painter? Angel Lopez-Obrero and sculptor Castiñeira Enrique Moreno Rodriguez "The Phenomenon?. He was editor in chief of Popular, fortnightly magazine that worked Juan Rejano. In 1933 he was elected socialist Córdoba. He moved to Madrid where, in addition to exercise parliamentary activity was editor in chief of the newspaper El Socialista, the principal organ of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. The war provoked by General Franco's military rebellion led him to Valencia where he was editor of the newspaper El Mercantil Valenciano, which maintained its publication until the last days of the war. Time worked in Spain, who wrote the magazine's most prestigious writers of the time. He was head of press at the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister with Juan Negrin.

In the last months of the war, lived in Barcelona, ​​where he directed the newspaper La Vanguardia. In Barcelona he died his wife Maria Jimenez and marriage eight children were welcomed by Belgian families. After the war he went into exile in France. His book, Passion and death of the Second Republic was printed and bound in Paris in 1940, but due to the capture of the French capital by Nazi troops, the book could not go on sale and disappeared. It has been recently recovered. In detailing the problems found by the Second Republic to modernize the country, including the clear interventionist tradition of the military in politics. With a self-critical spirit analyze your mistakes and misunderstandings that took place in the Republican zone during the civil war.

After a brief stay in Paris, the journalist Cordoba, once gathered his numerous children, he moved to Mexico. There was the literary editor of The Socialist, and wrote biographies, screenplays and lectured at the Centro Andaluz, in whose creation collaborated with poets Matilda Song and Juan Pedro Garfias and Rejano. Friend of Federico Garcia Lorca, published in 1957, García Lorca. Life and death song, which was the first biography of the poet from Granada.

The intellectual Cordoba remained true to its socialist ideals and democratic republic. And as the great journalist, "The Popular Front is just an effort to make the policy determined by war and political parties and organizations determined to be one and the same indivisible?.

Francisco Arias Solis

Freedom does not have those without thirst.

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