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The Pamplona journalist Juana Mir was shot by Francoists, one of the few women who wrote in the press.

87
years ago

05 August 1937,

The Pamplona journalist and writer Juana Mir García was shot by the Francoists in Derio. She was one of the few women who wrote in the press during the Spanish Republic. In the column “Woman writes” of the newspaper “The Afternoon” of Bilbao, he was arrested and sentenced to death for writing five articles denouncing Francoist cruelty, including the bombings of Gernika and Durango, accusing him of “propagandist of separatist reds.” He was 44 years old.

Source:

Danilo Albin Juana Mir, the journalist Franco silenced in the Paredón (Public, 29 November 2020)

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1937-01-02
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1937-01-04
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1937-01-05
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1937-01-06
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1937-02-07
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The General Motors car factory in the US city of Flint ended the sit-down strike with workers' victory
1937-02-17
A missile carried as a war trophy erupted at the seat of the Union of Communist and Socialist Youth of Bilbao
1937-02-19
Two young Eritreans attempted to assassinate regent Rodolfo Graziani, imposed by Italy in Ethiopia
1937-02-23
Hondarribia Candido Saseta Etxeberria was killed by Francoists in Asturias
1937-03-05
Cape Matxitxako Sea War between the Francoist Army and Warriors
1937-03-21
U.S. police rebelled against independentists in Puerto Rico and killed 19 people
1937-03-31
The Francoists provoked the massacre of Azaceta, the largest of Álava
1937-03-31
Elorrio and Durango were bombed by Francoist order
1937-04-04
It fell into the hands of Francoist troops Otxandio
1937-04-06
On Mount Saibigain in Abadiño, hard fighting began between the Basque Army and the Francoist army
1937-04-06
Franco government announced the maritime blockade of Bilbao
1937-04-07
The Unit of Phalanx reported that in Donostia there was a lot of Basque and Catalan
1937-04-09
Bilbao was bombed by Francoist troops
1937-04-23
Francoist aircraft bombed Eibar
1937-04-26
Fascist planes bombed Gernika
1937-05-04
Imposition of spelling rules against the Basque Country in Hego Euskal Herria
1937-05-04
The Turkish army kicked off the Dersim massacre against the Kurds
1937-05-21
The ship Havana left the port of Santurtzi to the United Kingdom with 3,868 refugee children under the age of 15
1937-05-21
'Havana' left Santurtzi with 3,840 Basque children fleeing war to the United Kingdom
1937-05-29
The Franco authorities of San Sebastian reported by circulating the ban on speaking in Basque and the filing of complaints
1937-05-31
The Ertzaintza and the Basque Army seized two Spanish vessels
1937-06-13
Basque authorities are preparing to evacuate Bilbao
1937-06-14
Francoist troops took Mungia after a month and a half of attack
1937-06-19
Bilbao fell into the hands of the franchises and started harsh repression
1937-06-25
‘Lauaxeta’ shooting by Francoists
1937-07-08
The United Kingdom introduced the war law and sent 13,000 soldiers to Palestine.
1937-07-10
The first exiled Basque children came to Wales
1937-07-12
Public exhibition of the 'Guernica' painting in Paris
1937-07-30
San Sebastian Civil Government fined businessman Joaquim Rivera for speaking “Catalan dialect”
1937-08-05
The Pamplona journalist Juana Mir was shot by Francoists, one of the few women who wrote in the press.
1937-08-13
Three Republican planes bombed Tudela
1937-10-15
Fourteen Basque prisoners were shot by Franco in El Dueso prison in Santoña
1937-10-28
42 Basque warriors shot by Francoist troops in Santoña
1937-11-19
57 Basque Republican prisoners for enslavement in Seville died in train accident
1937-12-13
Japanese army kicked off the Nanking City massacre in China
1937-12-13
Pedro Garmendia was executed by Francoists by garrote
1937-12-15
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