Guillermo Ascanio (1907–1941) was a

Communist Party of Spain The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently has two of its politicians serving a ...

politician. He fought on the side of the

Second Spanish Republic The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 ...

during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...

and tried to prevent Casado's coup of March 1939. After the victory of the Nationalists, he was executed by the government of

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 193 ...

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.Michael Alpert (2013). ''The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939'', Cambridge University Press, pág. 324

Biography

He was born in the Gomera town of Vallehermoso on 30 October 1907. Ascanio studied

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, later returning to

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. He would join the

(PCE), within which he would carry out intense work. Along with José Miguel Pérez, he was one of the main figures of the Communist Party in the Canary Islands. He published several articles in ''Spartacus'' (the publication of the ''Federación de Trabajadores de La Palma'' (Federation of Workers of La Palma)) in some of which he came to defend the

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of the

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with respect to Spain, describing the political-economic situation of the archipelago as "semi-colonial".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ascanio, Guillermo 1907 births 1941 deaths Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) People executed by Francoist Spain Communist Party of Spain politicians 20th-century Spanish politicians Place of birth missing