Brigadier General Engineer
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Juan Francisco Azcárate Pino (December 8, 1896 – June 2, 1987) was an officer in the
Mexican military
The Mexican Armed Forces () are the military forces of the United Mexican States. The Spanish crown established a standing military in colonial Mexico in the eighteenth century. After Mexican independence in 1821, the military played an importan ...
, a
diplomat
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, and a designer of
military aircraft
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.
As chief of the department of
aviation
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, Azcárate oversaw the manufacture of military aircraft of his own design at the
National Aviation Workshops. He was later appointed
to the
Mexican embassy in the United States, and during World War II was minister of the
Mexican embassy in Germany. His published works include ''Un Programa Político Internacional'' (1932), ''Esencia de la Revolución'', (1966) and ''Trilogía Moderna Contemporánea (1978)''.
References
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* Zavala, Juan Roberto. (2005) ''Científicos y tecnólogos de Nuevo León Diccionario Biográfico.'' Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Nuevo León: Monterrey, 23.
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1896 births
1987 deaths
People from Acuña, Nuevo León
20th-century Mexican engineers
Mexican people of Basque descent
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