Benigno Álvares, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Leader and founder of Galician Communist Party
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Place of Birth: Maceda, Galicia, Spain
About Benigno Álvares
- Benigno Álvares (March 11, 1900, in Maceda, Province of Ourense, Spain — 1937, in San Mamede, Galicia).
- Leader and founder of Galician Communist Party, Galician antifascist activist and partisan against Francisco Franco.
- This veterinary surgeon became provincial secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Ourense (Galicia) and president of the Provincial Peasant Federation, throughout the Second Spanish Republic.
- After the military coup in 1936 and the overthrow of Galicia by the franquist domain, he was haunted until his death by the local fascists, in 1937.
- His corpse was then showed by Civil Guard, tied to a truck, with a sign saying "Here's the Maceda's veterinary surgeon.
- Communism has died in Ourense".
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