Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
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priest
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Ourense
Ourense (; ) is a city and the capital of the province of province of Ourense, Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path o ...
during the
Second Spanish Republic
The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of Alfonso XIII, King Alfonso XIII. ...
, as a member of the
Radical Republican Party
The Radical Republican Party (), sometimes shortened to the Radical Party, was a Spanish Radical party in existence between 1908 and 1936. Beginning as a splinter from earlier Radical parties, it initially played a minor role in Spanish parlia ...
.
Biography
Born in
Ourense
Ourense (; ) is a city and the capital of the province of province of Ourense, Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path o ...
in 1877, was ordained priest in 1902. In 1907 he settled in
Madrid
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, although by 1912 would return to Beiro, Galicia. His career as a religious was characterized by an unorthodox interpretation of the rules of the
Catholic Church
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, where there is no choice of celibacy —but in fact came to have two children. These circumstances, among others, were the reason that between 1914 and 1928 was suspended by the Church. He has been described as a "picturesque" personality.
On his journalistic work he collaborated in publications such as ''La Nueva Época'', ''El Eco'', ''Galicia'', ''Acción Gallega'', ''El Parlamentario'' or ''La Zarpa''. He was also director of the Catholic newspaper ''
El Debate ''El Debate'' () refers to several Spanish language news websites and periodicals:
* ''El Debate'' (Argentina), Argentinian online newspaper
* ''El Debate'' (Manila), a former Filipino newspaper between 1918 and 1970
* ''El Debate'' (Mexico), Me ...
'' and author of works such as ''El cural rural'' (1904), ''Por los agros celtas'' (1907), ''El libro del periodista'' (1912), ''Abriendo el surco'' (1913), among others. His works and his meetings were in
Spanish language
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.
He was one of the founders of the movement
Acción Gallega
Acción Gallega (AG, ''Galician Action'' in English language) was one of the most important Agrarianism, agrarianist, Turno, antiturnista and anti-client politics (Cacique#Caciquismo and caudillismo, anticaciquismo) political movements in Galiza, G ...
caciquismo
Caciquism is a network of political power wielded by local leaders called "", aimed at influencing electoral outcomes. It is a feature of some modern-day societies with incomplete democratization.(ca)foro". After 1913 he began to closer his speech to the workers movement and around 1915 Basilio Álvarez proposed collaboration with socialists and republicans. Opposite to
centralism
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, advocated a federal structure in Spain. Some have drawn parallelism s between the rhetorical style and language of Álvarez —which has come to be described as "incendiary", "cult", passionate or "Baroque"— with those of
Alejandro Lerroux
Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864, in La Rambla, Córdoba – 25 June 1949, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party. He served as Prime Minister three times from 1933 to 1935 and held sever ...
. Basilio Álvarez was a "charismatic orator".
In the early 1930s he joined the
Radical Republican Party
The Radical Republican Party (), sometimes shortened to the Radical Party, was a Spanish Radical party in existence between 1908 and 1936. Beginning as a splinter from earlier Radical parties, it initially played a minor role in Spanish parlia ...
, with which it secured the 1931 deputy act for the circumscription of Ourense. He however left the group in 1935, for to be a member of a party the ephemeral Manuel Portela Valladares' Party of Democratic Center in 1936. Following the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War
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he went into exile. He died in 1943 in
Tampa, Florida
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