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Mexico and the Spanish Civil War : domestic politics and the Republican cause

Ojeda Revah, Mario, author

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\"Based on first-hand diplomatic, political and journalistic sources, most unpublished, Mexico and the Spanish Civil War investigates the backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. Significant military, material and financial aid was given by the government of Lâazaro Câardenas (1934-1940) to the Republic, which involved not only direct sales of arms, but also smuggling operations covertly undertaken by Mexican diplomatic agents in order to circumvent the embargo imposed by the London Committee of Non Intervention. This path-breaking account reveals the operations in Spain of Mexican workers, soldiers, artists and intellectuals--such as later Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and the Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros--as volunteers and propagandists for the Republican cause. Engagement with the Spanish Civil War also had a profound impact upon Mexico's domestic politics as support for the Republic was equated by Câardenas with his own revolutionary project\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Subject: Câardenas, Lâazaro, 1895-1970. / Mexicans Spain History 20th century. / Military assistance History 20th century. / Economic assistance History 20th century. / Mexico Foreign relations Spain. / Spain Foreign relations Mexico. / Mexico Military relations Spain. / Spain Military relations Mexico. / Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Participation, Mexican. / Mexico Politics and government 1910-1946.
• ISBN: 9781845196660

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F1228.5.S7 O3713 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE