Salvador Borrego Escalante (24 April 1915 – 8 January 2018) was a Mexican journalist and historical revisionist writer. Borrego began his career in

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in 1936, as a reporter of the Mexican newspaper

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where he eventually was appointed editor-in-chief. He became a Nazi sympathizer in 1937, when Borrego perceived an anti-German bias in the Mexican mass media, allegedly fostered by a

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of pro-Western advertisers. He has written several books, including '' Derrota Mundial'' ("Worldwide Defeat"), published on 1953, in which he claims that the defeat of

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and

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was a defeat for the entire world because the Nazis were fighting against what they believed to be an international

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ish evil, and their plan to take over the global economy. In '' América Peligra'' ("The Americas in Danger"), published in 1964, he focuses the story on what he asserts is an international Jewish conspiracy to provide what he claims to be the true account of the unfolding of historical events in

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and

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. In 1996 Catalan police closed a

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managed by Spanish Neo-Nazi Pedro Varela, and confiscated a host of Nazi books and publications, including those of Salvador Borrego. Varela was arrested, but the bookstore opened again several months later. Borrego turned 100 on 24 April 2015. On 8 January 2018, Borrego died at the age of 102.

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Official site (Spanish) , Sitio Oficial
1915 births 2018 deaths Mexican anti-communists Mexican journalists Male journalists Mexican conspiracy theorists Mexican propagandists Mexican centenarians Far-right politics in Mexico Antisemitic propaganda Holocaust deniers Men centenarians Neo-Nazism in North America People from Mexico City {{Mexico-journalist-stub