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This Friday, March 15, Pedro Costa Morata will offer us the talk-colloquium 'Cartagena, March 1939: The greatest Artemio Precioso facing the Franco uprising'.
This event, organized by the Association of the Historical Memory of Cartagena in collaboration with Cartagena Piensa, will take place at 7:30 p.m., in the Hall of Degrees of the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSIA).
Artemio Precioso Ugarte (Hellín, 1917 - Madrid, August 2007) was a Spanish economist and ecologist, son of the writer Artemio Precioso.
He fought in the Spanish Civil War, where he stood out in the suppression of the profranquista rebellion that had exploded in the Naval Base of Cartagena.
On the night of Saturday, March 4, the uprising broke out in Cartagena, led by the captain Fernando Oliva, chief of staff of the base;
the artillery colonel Gerardo Armentia and the commander Manuel Lombardero, of the fifth column.
Precioso Ugarte was sent with the 206th Brigade (the one that sunk the ship Castillo Olite that transported Francoist troops) to the naval base, where he managed to quickly end the uprising although he could not avoid the flight of the republican war fleet
The aim was to deprive the Republic of its only major naval port and its navy.
This last objective, which was the most important, was fully fulfilled because the Republican fleet went to sea as soon as the rebellion broke out and instead of returning when the admiral chief of the fleet, Miguel Buiza, had already been put down, he set course for Bizerte, in the French Protectorate of Tunis.
Beautiful Ugarte
ABOUT PEDRO COSTA MORATA
Pedro Costa Morata (Águilas 1947) is a sociologist, political scientist, engineer and journalist.
Founder of the environmental movement in Spain, leading the anti-nuclear struggle.
National Environment Award, 1998.
In 1975, being a commercial of Fischer & Porter, he resigned his job and promoted the protests to avoid the construction of a nuclear power plant in the aquiline area of ​​Cabo Cope, at which point he will start what he himself defines as the "Epiphany" of the Spanish anti-nuclear movement.
He was professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2002-2015), professor of Doctorate at the San Carlos University of Guatemala since 2008, Director of the Center for Socio-Ecological Studies in 1978-81, being the president Artemio Precioso, whose friendship he cultivated from 1978 until his death in 2007.
In 2011, he headed the candidacy for the Congress of Deputies in the list of 'Izquierda Unida-Verdes de la Región de Murcia' as an independent in the General Elections on November 20.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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