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Guillén, Abraham

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Personal name headingGuillén, Abraham
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Variant(s)Arapey
Heras, Jaime de las
Molina, Fernando, 1913-1993
Associated countryMexico Argentina
Associated placeUruguay Spain France Peru
Birth date1913-03-13
Death date1993-08-01
Place of birthGuadalajara (Mexico)
Field of activityGuerrilla warfare Socialism
Profession or occupationJournalists Authors Economists
Found inHis Monopolios y latifundios contra la economía argentina, 1956.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1913)
University of Florida website, A guide to the Abraham Guillén Collection, finding aid prepared August 2004 [identical to text in Wikipedia article], viewed online August 1, 2020: Biographical/historical note (author, economist, educator; prolific revolutionary writer during the 1960s, intellectual mentor of the Movement of National Liberation (Tupamaros); influenced by anarchism; most widely known as author of Strategy of the Urban Guerrilla; born in Guadalajara on March 13, 1913; during the Spanish Civil War he fought against Franco's forces; escaped from prison in 1945, spent 3 years in France; in 1948 he immigrated to Argentina; editor for Economia y finanzas, with contributions published under the pseudonym Jaime de las Heras; under pseudonym Fernando Molina he contributed to Buenos Aires newspaper El Laborista; his 1957 publication, The agony of imperialism, resulted in loss of his job and barring from employment as a journalist in Argentina; imprisoned for a few months in 1961, then sought political asylum in Montevideo in 1962; first edition of his Strategy of the Urban Guerrilla was published in 1966; journalist for the Montevideo newspaper Accion, often using pseudonym Arapey; he also lived and worked in Peru, and eventually returned to Madrid, where he taught theories of self-management and communal action; died August 1, 1993) Scope and content (manuscripts and letters in Spanish)
Associated languagespa