Joaquín Ascaso Budria

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Joaquín Ascaso
President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon
In office 17 January 1937 – 10 August 1937
Personal details
Born	Joaquín Ascaso Budria c. 1906/1907 Zaragoza, Spain
Died	March 1977 Caracas, Venezuela
Political party	CNT

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Joaquín Ascaso Budria (Zaragoza, c. 1906/1907 – Caracas, March 1977) was an anarcho-syndicalist and President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon between 1936 and 1937.

He was a cousin of CNT leader Francisco Ascaso.^[1]

Biography[]

He worked as a building worker, and, in his youth, he entered CNT, taking part in the anarchist association known as Los Indomables (“The Indomitable Ones”), and helping as well another one known as Los Solidarios (“Solidarity”).^{[citation needed]}

Ascaso was arrested in Zaragoza because of his anarchist activities in 1924. According to the police report, he was seventeen then. After that, he fled to France until the advent of the Second Spanish Republic, having been influenced by the Jaca Uprising. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was in Barcelona, and during the 1936 Spanish Revolution he set out to the Aragons's Front, first in the Durruti Column, and afterwards in the Ortiz's Column. He was appointed a Government's delegate on 19 January 1937, by the Regional Council for Aragon's Defense.^{[citation needed]}

When the Council was dissolved, he was arrested by Spanish Republican Government's orders on 19 August 1937. He was kept in the prison (near Valencia) for 38 days. Finally, he set out to France, through Andorra, with Antonio Ortiz. From there, he went to Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and finally settled down in Venezuela, where, in the 1960s, he founded, together with Antonio Ortiz and other libertarian exiles, an anarchist group called Fuerza Única (“Unique Force”).

Works[]

Historian Alejandro Díez Torre recovered and published in 2006 a book written by Ascaso himself, “Memorias, 1936-1938: Hacia un nuevo Aragón” (“Memoirs, 1936-1938: Towards a new Aragon”) (ISBN 9788477338369), which was edited by the University of Zaragoza. Writer Francisco Carrasquer published that same year “Ascaso y Zaragoza, dos pérdidas: la pérdida” (“Ascaso and Zaragoza. Two losses: one loss”), a research paper about Ascaso and the Council.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• 11th Division
• Domingo Ascaso Abadía (cousin)
• Francisco Ascaso (cousin)

References[]

• Ascaso, J. (2006), Memorias(1936-1938):Hacia un nuevo Aragón, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza.
• Carrasquer, F. (2003), Ascaso y Zaragoza, dos pérdidas: La pérdida, Alcaraván Ediciones.
• Gómez, J. (1977), Los anarquistas en el gobierno, 1936-1939, Editorial Brugera.

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