Antonio García-Trevijano Forte (18 July 1927 – 28 February 2018) was a Spanish republican

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and

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. Born in

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, he was a prominent figure in the opposition to the

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Political activism

In 1974 García-Trevijano organised meetings in

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between Don Juan de Borbón and the republican groups plus the publishing group Ruedo Ibérico, in which the legitimate heir to the Spanish throne expressed his rejection of Franco's decree appointing his son Juan Carlos as his successor. He acted as a promoter of political freedom throughout Spain and was the leader of the Citizens' Movement towards the Constitutional Republic of Spain (MCRC).

Repression

He was tried for high treason before the Court of Public Order (Marshal of Ghent) because of his intervention in Equatorial Guinea. He has had five passports withdrawn, suffered three arrests and two fines, was the victim of a serious attack for his declarations to the BBC when Franco was dying, and was prosecuted by the Public Order Court (Gómez Chaparro) for an offense against the State and imprisoned for four months by order of

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Bibliography

García-Trevijano wrote a blog and in the ''Journal of the Constitutional Republic''. A political analyst in the Spanish press, he wrote more than 50 articles in the ''Reporter magazine'', over a thousand articles in ''ABC'', ''El País'', ''El Independiente'', ''El Mundo'', and ''La Razón''. He has written several monographs in private law, a short book titled ''The Truth of my Intervention in Guinea''. He has also written the books ''The Democratic Alternative'', ''The Discourse of the Republic'', ''Confronting the Big Lie''—which has been published in English with the title ''A Pure Theory of Democracy'' by the

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, ''Passions of servitude'', an art book titled ''Donatello, Sculptor of the Childhood'', and a book on philosophy of art entitled ''From Modernity to Modernism. Atheism Aesthetic: Art of the Twentieth Century''. He has also written prologues to ''Palace of Injustice'' and ''El País: Culture as Business''.

Personal life

García-Trevijano was Professor of Commercial Law at the

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and a notary, and worked as an attorney in Madrid from 1960 until his death. He died on 28 February 2018 from natural causes. He was 90 years old.

Notes and references

* García-Trevijano Forte, Antonio. ''Pasiones de servidumbre''. 2001. Madrid: Foca * García-Trevijano Forte, Antonio. ''Frente a la gran mentira''. 1996. Madrid: Espasa Calpe. * García-Trevijano Forte, Antonio
"A pure theory of democracy"
* García Viñó, Manuel. El País: ''La cultura como negocio''. 2006. Tafalla: Txalaparta. * Archivo Juan J. Linz sobre la transición español

"C.E. Camacho sale Trevijano se queda".
1976. Triunfo 697,11
"Brutal atentado contra un grupo de profesionales".
November 7, 1975. Informaciones. * The Times Madrid correspondent. "Opposition to hold summit meeting in Madrid today". September 4, 1976. The Times, 3. * Secretary of US State Kissinger. CONFIDENTIAL STATE 135254
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND SPAIN: OPPOSITION CAUSES CONTROVERSY.
10 June 1975. * Martínez Reverte, Javier
''Habla el conde de Barcelona''.
22 de Enero 1974. Diario Pueblo.

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