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Many women first traveled to Paris, before going by boat or train to fight. A 1937 agreement designed to stop foreign intervention eventually largely put a stop to recruitment to the International Brigades for both men and women. [51] The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. With ...
The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. With Nationalist forces overrunning her position, the unit commander chose to commit suicide rather than to surrender. [7] [24] [29] Her death would be widely shared by both Republican and Falangist propagandists. With Nationalist forces ...
The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Almeria born JSU affiliated miliciana Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. [35] [9] [27] [39] With Nationalist forces overrunning her position, the unit commander chose to commit suicide rather than to surrender at a battle in Guadix.
Another reason the role of Spanish women on the Republican side in the Civil War has been ignored is there is a lack of primary sources. [1] [6] This was a result oftentimes of either fleeing government forces destroying documents or women themselves destroying documents in order to protest themselves. [1] Concealing their own involvement in ...
Latino voters who primarily spoke English were more likely to support Republican candidates (33%), compared to voters who only spoke Spanish (15%). [23] In Florida, 66% of Cuban-Americans supported Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis, while only 33% supported Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, a 2 to 1 ratio for Republicans.
Membership for women in PCE's Asturias section in 1932 was 330, but it grew. By 1937, it had increased to 1,800 women. [10] The Spanish Committee of Women against War and Fascism was founded as a women's organization affiliated with Partido Comunista de España in 1933. [10] It was a middle-class feminist movement. [8]
Cesar Romero (actor, singer, dancer, active in Republican campaigns beginning in 1960) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida; first Cuban-American woman in Congress) Larry Rubin (Mexican-American, president and chairman of The American Society of Mexico, chairman of Republicans Abroad in Mexico
The Republican faction (Spanish: Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. [1]