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A Biographical Prologue

The Transnational World of José María Blázquez de Pedro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2020

Kirwin R. Shaffer
Kirwin R. Shaffer
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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This brief biography of Blazquez de Pedro illustrates not only his central ideas but more importantly how he was representative of Caribbean transnational anarchism. As a Spanish soldier in the 1890s, he fought against anarchist-supported independence for Cuba. After the war, he discovered anarchism and became an important literary and educational figure in the movement. In 1914, he moved to Panama and helped the isthmus maintain regional linkages with Havana. He combined literary with labor anarchism in the 1910s and 1920s, becoming the most recognizable face of anarchism in Central America. His deportation to and death in Cuba was not the end of his transnational wanderings as comrades returned his remains to Panama in 1929.

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CubaSpainPanamaliteratureeducationaestheticsunionsrent strikedeportationbiographymemoirtransnationalism
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Anarchists of the Caribbean
Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion
 , pp. 1 - 10
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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