Jesus de Galindez

In March 1956, Jesus de Galindez, the Spanish Republican exile and Basque government delegate in New York, mysteriously disappeared from the center of Manhattan and was never seen again. Like so many Jesus de Galindez suffered the pain of concentration camps and exile. He became Delegate of the Basque Government in the Dominican Republic. When he was there , the research he carried out for his doctoral thesis on the disctatorship of Geberal Trujillo was more than enough reason to make him flee the country for New York and after that he was never seen again. Its believed that he was toutured and murdered under the dictatorship of Trujillo. The FBI launched a costly enquiry into who was responsible for removing their most valuable political informant on Latin America, and that Trujillo, scared, set about wiping out all those connected with the kidnapping, starting with Galindez himself. Galindez was a proponent of an inclusive form of nationalism that sought to reconcile two or more identifications. The pilot who took Galindez to Santo Domingo also was killed, the first of a tangled web of assassinations in an episode in which few, apart from Galindez, emerge with any credit. Galindez never saw his political dreams realized. In fact, somehow he intuitively knew about his death. He proposed the creation of an international federation of sorts that would be recognized by the United Nations. But he did not live to see his dreams of greater freedom realized. It seems he was a martyr for freedom: seems because we might never really know what happened to him. His younger brother Tavito, a true believer, took part in the kidnapping of Jesús de Galíndez, in 1956. For his loyalty he was jailed and murdered. If you get time do watch the spanish movie " The Galindez file", based on the true story of this Nationalist.