A family story between 2 shores of the Atlantic

My great-grandmother, who died when I was 16, said that her father had been deported from Uruguay, as an anarchist, during the Gabriel Terra dictatorship. Back in Ibiza, he began to communicate by letters with the family, saying that he had enlisted on the Republican side for the Civil War.

I went to search in old editions of the Ibiza newspaper and found a mention of him, active in the Radical Socialist Party, still during the Constituent Assembly. The party was the third most voted and was incorporated into the Popular Front in the 1936 elections.

With the defeat in the Civil War, he took refuge in Toulouse, where he lived through the Second War. After all, when he was finally able to return, he wrote saying that he was already very old and sick, and that old people are a lot of work. He sent a photo of himself on the streets of Toulouse, to prove that he was fine, walking leaning on a cane, with a cigarette in the other hand. He died in an asylum for anarchists, which sent us the death certificate.

I have his photo in a photo frame on my shelf.