Olegario Pachón Núñez (
Bienvenida, 1907–
Llerena, 1996) was an
Extremaduran anarchist.
Biography
He was born in the Badajoz town of
Bienvenida in 1907. Born into a peasant family, in his youth he worked in the fields as a day laborer . During the years of the
Second Spanish Republic he joined the anarchist movement, forming part of the
National Confederation of Labor
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( es, link=no, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT).
After the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War he joined the
confederal militias
The confederal militias were a movement of people's militia organized during the Spanish civil war by the dominant organizations of anarchism in Spain: the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).
These ...
, fighting on the
Extremadura front. He came to command the Pío Sopena battalion, which was deployed on the fronts of
Talarrubias and
Casas de Don Pedro
Casas de Don Pedro, meaning 'Lord Peter's houses', is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2014 census, the municipality has a population of 1559 inhabitants.
History
At the time of the Spanish C ...
. Later, he joined the structure of the
People's Army of the Republic. During some months of 1937 he was at the head of the
113th Mixed Brigade, which manned the quiet front of the Tagus-Extremadura. He also commanded
91st Mixed Brigade
The 91st Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army that took part in the Spanish Civil War. Throughout the war the brigade was present on the Extremadura front, attached to the 37th Division.
History
The unit was created in M ...
, taking part in the
Battle of Merida pocket
The battle of the Mérida pocket, also known as the closing of the Mérida pocket ( es, Cierre de la bolsa de Mérida), was an action that took place during the Spanish Civil War in July 1938 in La Serena zone of Badajoz Province. A swift and de ...
. Towards the end of the war he was commander of the
37th Division.
Towards the end of the war he fled to
Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...
, but upon reaching the port he discovered that there were no boats for the refugees. He was taken prisoner by Franco's forces and imprisoned in the concentration camps of
Albatera and
Porta Coeli. However, he managed to escape and flee to France. There he managed to establish himself and collaborated with the
anarcho-syndicalist organization in exile. During his exile he worked as a cartridge carrier,
stevedore and
ironer. In 1957 he was sent to
Spain as a delegate of the CNT, on a clandestine trip whose mission was to ascertain the state of the CNT structure there. Olegario Pachón himself verified the degree of inactivity of the anarchist organization and made it known to the CNT headquarters in exile. After Franco's death, he returned to
Extremadura, where he died in 1996.
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* {{cite book , last1= Vega , first1= Rubén , last2= Serrano , first2= Begoña , title= Clandestinidad, represión y lucha política. El movimiento obrero en Gijón bajo el franquismo (1937-1962) , year= 1998 , publisher= Ayuntamiento de Gijón
1907 births
1996 deaths
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo members
People from the Province of Badajoz
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France