Meeting Spain's 'last anarchist'

Submitted by Bobby on 8 July, 2008 - 16:40.

By Alfonso Daniels
San Buenaventura, Bolivia
Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon.
Here, in a simple one-storey brick house next to a row of wooden shacks, is the home of Antonio Garcia Baron.
He is the only survivor still alive of the anarchist Durruti column which held Francoist forces at bay in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the founder of an anarchist community in the heart of the jungle

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7420469.stm

8 July, 2008 - 20:16

The link isn't working for me but see also - http://libcom.org/forums/history/the-last-member-durruti-column-22052008 - There was a book about Antonio García Barón published in Spain some years ago which I think was quite successful - presumably where the journalists got their story ideas from.

8 July, 2008 - 20:40

Link works fine for me. Amazing aul lad, definitely larger than life.

8 July, 2008 - 21:15

Yes - it's working for me now. It's an edited translation of the story in El Mundo. The book about him is “El precio del paraíso” by Manuel Leguineche. There's another article in Spanish here.

17 July, 2008 - 21:03

happy pronunciamento day everyone!!! on this day 72 years ago....