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Eduardo de Guzmán

1908–1991

Nationality
Spain
Occupation
trade unionist

Eduardo de Guzmán Espinosa (19 June 1908 in Villada – 25 July 1991 in Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and writer, popular during the Second Spanish Republic.

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Biography

Eduardo de Guzmán Espinosa (19 June 1908 in Villada – 25 July 1991 in Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and writer, popular during the Second Spanish Republic. He was known for his press reports and journalism during the Spanish Civil War following the anarcho-syndicalist ideology. He was arrested at the end of the civil war. In January 1940, he was sentenced to death by a military court, together with the poet Miguel Hernández, but his sentence was commuted to a prison term in May 1941, and he was granted conditional freedom in 1943.