Antonio García-Trevijano


Antonio García-Trevijano Forte was a Spanish republican, a political activist, and an author. He was born in Alhama de Granada, noted for his activism against the Francoist Spain. He was referred to by the University Press of America as "a leading figure in Spanish politics since the late 1960s and probably one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century in political and aesthetic theory".

Political activism

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

Repression

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 He has had five passports withdrawn, suffered three arrests and two fines, was the victim of a serious attack for his declarations to the BBC when Franco was dying, and was prosecuted by the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

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.