Aurelio Velázquez-Hernández

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Cantabria

The Unitarian Service Committee was one of the most important US aid agencies involved in assisting refugees in the World War II context. In the article I analyse the origins of its action in Europe, focusing on a practically unknown aspect which as its intervention in favour of Spanish Republicans who had fled from Spain and the threat of Francois...

Partiendo de la polémica existente en torno a la valoración de la figura de Gilberto Bosques, en este artículo tratamos de realizar una nueva mirada, basada en una investigación con fuentes primarias inéditas, acerca de un período prácticamente desconocido de su participación en el salvamento de refugiados. Entre 1946 y 1949 Gilberto Bosques ejerci...

In this article we try to make an approach to which the Movimiento Español 1959 was. We are especially interested about contextualize this movement in the international situation, understand their ideological ties with the Cuban revolution and check its scope and meaning. Through the reports of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad of Mexico we can un...

En el presente artículo tratamos de realizar un acercamiento sobre qué fue el Movimiento Español 1959.11Este artículo se enmarca en una investigación realizada gracias al programa unam-dgapa-papiit ig400314/2014-2016: “Interacción de los exilios en México y América Latina (siglo xx)”. Nos interesa especialmente contextualizar este movimiento en la...

The present paper seeks to analyse a project of creating and running a system of lodgings which were created to accommodate the so-called "children of Morelia". The ordeal of the 464 Spanish children who arrived in Mexico in 1937 was marked by a strong polemic and political fights from the moment of their arrival. As they were the object of propaga...

This paper provides new information on the issue of the treasure carried aboard the "Vita", which unleashed huge political and historical polemics ever since the yacht arrived at Veracruz in March, 1939. By recurring to sources which had been little used and through a deep and detailed examination of the accounting books kept by the Junta de Auxili...

La formación del gobierno republicano español en el exilio en 1945 supone la consolidación de la vía institucionalista de oposición al franquismo desde el exilio liderada por Martínez Barrio. Sin embargo, una vez comience a funcionar este gobierno deberá enfrentarse con la dura realidad de un exilio políticamente dividido y un panorama internaciona...