Antonio García-Trevijano

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García-Trevijano and the second or maternal family name is Forte.
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte
Born
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte

(1927-07-18)18 July 1927
Alhama de Granada, Spain
Died28 February 2018(2018-02-28) (aged 90)
Madrid, Spain
Other namesMaverick[1]
Citizenship
  • Spain
EducationUniversity of Granada
OccupationLawyer, notary public, jurist, politician, philosopher and art critic
Known forDemocratic Junta of Spain, Democratic Convergence Platform, Platajunta, MCRC
Spouse(s)Francine Chouraki Levent
Children2
Parent(s)Antonio García-Trevijano and Ángeles Forte
Website

Antonio García-Trevijano Forte (18 July 1927 – 28 February 2018) was a Spanish republican lawyer, notary public, jurist, philosopher, art critic, author and political activist. Born in Alhama de Granada, he was a prominent figure in the opposition to the Francoist dictatorship.

Political activism[]

In 1974 García-Trevijano organised meetings in Paris between Don Juan de Borbón and the republican groups plus the publishing group , in which the legitimate heir to the Spanish throne expressed his rejection of Franco's decree appointing his son Juan Carlos as his successor.[2] He acted as a promoter of political freedom throughout Spain and was the leader of the Citizens' Movement towards the Constitutional Republic of Spain (MCRC).[3]

Repression[]

He was tried for high treason before the Court of Public Order (Marshal of Ghent) because of his intervention in Equatorial Guinea; he was integral in helping put the dictator Francisco Macías Nguema in power.[4] He has had five passports withdrawn, suffered three arrests and two fines, was the victim of a serious attack for his declarations to the BBC when Franco was dying,[5] and was prosecuted by the Public Order Court (Gómez Chaparro) for an offense against the State and imprisoned for four months by order of Manuel Fraga Iribarne.[6]

Bibliography[]

García-Trevijano wrote a blog[7] and in the Journal of the Constitutional Republic. A political analyst in the Spanish press, he wrote more than 50 articles in the Reporter magazine, over a thousand articles in ABC, El País, El Independiente, El Mundo, and La Razón. He has written several monographs in private law, a short book titled The Truth of my Intervention in Guinea.[8] He has also written the books The Democratic Alternative, The Discourse of the Republic, Confronting the Big Lie—which has been published in English with the title A Pure Theory of Democracy[9] by the University Press of America, Passions of servitude, an art book titled Donatello, Sculptor of the Childhood, and a book on philosophy of art entitled From Modernity to Modernism. Atheism Aesthetic: Art of the Twentieth Century. He has also written prologues to Palace of Injustice and El País: Culture as Business.

Personal life[]

García-Trevijano was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Granada and a notary, and worked as an attorney in Madrid from 1960 until his death. He died on 28 February 2018 from natural causes. He was 90 years old.

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ SPANISH OPPOSITION LAWYERS AND VENEZUELAN NEWSMAN BEATEN BY MASKED ASSAILANTS
  2. ^ "Spain's opposition groups demand urgent action from new king". The Times. 25 November 1975.
  3. ^ MCRC website
  4. ^ "pnpa46_03.html". mongobeti.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  5. ^ "Madrid Lawyers beaten up". The Times: 4. 7 November 1975.
  6. ^ "Spanish regime bans press conference by opposition alliance". The Times: 7. 30 March 1976.
  7. ^ García-Trevijano's blog
  8. ^ The Truth of my Intervention in Guinea
  9. ^ "A Pure Theory of Democracy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2019-09-30.

See also[]

External links[]

Articles and audio-visual documents of Antonio García-Trevijano are available to read, listen and watch in the pro Justice & Democracy web Habeas-Corpus.net

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