Sixto Agudo, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish politician and World War II resistance member
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About Sixto Agudo
- Sixto Agudo González (born August 25, 1916, Torrijos, d.
- June 29, 2004) was a Spanish politician and World War II resistance member.
- His nom de guerre was 'Blanco'.
- He was married to Ángeles Blanco Brualla, the first Communist Party mayor in Aragón.During his early years, Sixto Agudo joined the Socialist Youth.
- He was active during the peasants' general strike and the 1934 October Revolution.
- In April 1936 he became a member of the Toledo provincial committee of the Unified Socialist Youth.
- In the Spanish Civil War he fought at the battle fronts in Jarama, Madrid and Levante.
- He was captured by Italian troops and held in prison camps in Almendros, Albatera and Portacoeli.
- His last lieu of imprisonment was at Sa Pobla, on the island of Majorca.
- He managed to escape and reach France.He was interned alongside many other Spaniards in the Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp for a period.
- Inside the prison camp, he was part of an organization of Spanish communists.
- Agudo managed to escape, and took refuge in Aude in the fall of 1941.
- In that region he took part in forming the first Spanish communist guerrilla unit on French soil.
- With the support of the French Communist Party, the Spanish communists set up a political-military school and a publication in the border region.
- Agudo was put in-charge of the party organization in the Southern Zone of France, substituting Miguel López.
- He served as a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Spain.
- Towards the end of 1943 he returned clandestinely to Spain, one of the first communists to do so.
- His mission was to meet with Manuel Giménez Fernández, former Minister of Agriculture in the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA) cabinet 1934-1935, in a move by the Communist Party to include monarchist forces in the opposition alliance.Agudo was captured in Seville in 1944 and sentenced to death in 1945.
- His penalty was later changed to 30 years imprisonment.
- He was jailed in Burgos 1949-1961.
- He was conditionally released in 1961.After his release from jail he returned to France.
- In exile, he was active in party work.
- He returned to Spain in 1976, and settled down in the native village of his spouse, Alcampell.
- He became the organization secretary of the Communist Party federation in Aragón.
- At the ninth congress of the Communist Party, he was elected as a member of the Control and Guarantees Committee of the party.
- He stood as candidate for Senate four times and was elected to the Aragonese Corts 1983-1987.
- He resigned from the Aragonese Corts to serve as mayor of Alcampell.In 2000 the Government of Aragón issued a commemorative plaque for Sixto Agudo, in honour of 'his work to re-establish democratic freedoms in Spain and his work to support municipalism and socio-economic development in La Litera area during the Democracy'.
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