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Avelino Álvarez
Avelino Álvarez Villanueva (4 November 1911 – 16 August 1991) was a Spanish pharmacist and footballer who played as a midfielder for Madrid FC and Real Valladolid. Early life and family Avelino Álvarez was born on 4 November 1911 in Mieres, Asturias, as the son of Florentina Villanueva Viejo Álvarez and teacher José Álvarez Losa, who also owned a mine and other businesses in Turón, which allowed the couple to enjoy a comfortable economic position and give their seven children higher education in Madrid to keep them away from the world of the coal business. Three of his brothers (Ramón, Carlos, and Luis) were doctors; another, José, was an engineer, but Avelino became a pharmacist. As for the two sisters, Carmen, born in 1907, studied Educational Sciences, although she did not go on to practice, because her marriage in 1934 introduced her into Madrid's high society where it was frowned upon for women to work. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was caught in Republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieres
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbiés, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello. History Mieres is the heart of the coal mining industry in Spain. The topography of Mieres is mountainous with the greatest population centers being located in the valley along the banks of the Caudal River (''Río Caudal'') valley in the center of Asturias. Before the Spanish Industrial Restructuring Mieres was one of the industrial backbones of Asturias, and hosted 70000 inhabitants in the 1960s. Today Mieres shelters a campus of the University of Oviedo and different museums in relation with the industrial heritage. The municipality of Mieres is served by bus routes and the regional rail lines Renfe Feve and Renfe Cercanias, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checa (Spanish Civil War)
The ''checas'' were unofficial parapolice units which committed arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, Kangaroo court, unfair trials and executions, as part of the Red Terror (Spain), Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War. The term "checa" was first used by anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalists to denounce prisoner abuse, but was later adopted by the Francoist Spain, Francoist dictatorship to describe the (CPIP), a parapolice agency established by the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans during the early months of the war. Etymology and orthography The ''checas'' were named after the Cheka, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK), commonly known as the ''cheka'', the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik secret police which carried out the Red Terror during the Russian Civil War. The Hispanicization, hispanicised term "checa" later gained use to refer in kind to the parapolice units who carried out the Red Terror (Spain), Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War. Althou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
