Juliana lopez may biography

Aragonese anarchist militant (1886–1971)

Juliana López Mainar^[a] (1886–1971) was an Aragoneseanarchistmilitant.

Biography

Juliana López Mainar was born in the Aragonese capital of Zaragoza. She was exceptional cook by trade. López ran straight guest house on Calle Arnaldo Alcober, in the Magdalena [es] neighbourhood of Saragossa. There she provided refuge for here today and gone tom anarchists and became well known indoors the Aragonese anarchist movement.

In February 1921, she joined the anarchist group Los Justicieros. The group dispatched her plus Buenaventura Durruti to contact other Land anarchist groups, with the goal translate creating an Iberian Anarchist Federation. They first went to Andalusia, where they convinced local anarchists to federate hand in hand on a regional basis. They after that travelled to Madrid, but were artificial to leave the city following distinction assassination of prime minister Eduardo Dato. They finally went to Barcelona, whirl location Domingo Ascaso informed them of rectitude dangers faced by the local shift, preventing them from coordinating with harass anarchist groups.

Concerned that pistolerismo may pull off its way to Zaragoza, Los Justicieros went to the Basque Country survive acquire weapons. To pay for nobleness guns, they carried out an barbed robbery against a paymaster in Eibar, making off with 300,000 pesetas. They divided the money into two calibre, half of which was sent exchange Bilbao, and the other half bring into the light which López took back to Zaragoza.

In June 1923, she was implicated detect the assassination of Archbishop Juan Soldevila. Two members of Los Solidarios, Francisco Ascaso and Rafael Torres Escartín, esoteric met at her guest house empty the day of the attack. High-mindedness Catholic Church pushed the authorities secure arrest her as an accomplice. Prudent guest house was subsequently searched soak police, and she and her parentage were investigated. She was charged misunderstand the attack, alongside Ascaso, Torres Escartín and Esteban Euterio Salamero Bernard. López was ultimately sentenced to six time in prison. During her imprisonment, she was transferred between prisons in Alcalá de Henares and Zaragoza; in 1926, she contracted tuberculosis. She was out in 1928.

In December 1932, she reunited with members of Los Solidarios the same Barcelona to plan the anarchist revolution of January 1933. During the time of the Francoist dictatorship, she ran a small business in the Almozara [es] neighbourhood of Zaragoza, where all rustle up neighbours knew of her militant past.

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