Gilberto Bosques Sald%C3%ADvar

Gilberto Bosques Saldvar was a Mexican career diplomat and before that a combatant in the Mexican Revolution and a leftist legislator. As a consul in Marseille, Vichy France, Bosques took initiative to rescue tens of thousands of Jews and Spanish Republican exiles from being deported to Nazi Germany or Spain, but his heroism remained unknown to the world at large for some sixty years, until several years after his death at the age of 102 . For about two decades after World War II, Bosques served as Mexicos ambassador to several countries. Since 2003, international recognition has been accruing to him. In 1944, he described his efforts thus I followed the policy of my country, of material and moral support to the heroic defenders of the Spanish Republic, the stalwart paladins of the struggle against Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Petain, and Laval.

Gilberto Bosques Saldvar was born in Chiautla, a mountain village in southern portion of the state of Puebla, southwest of Mexico City. At the age of 17, he took up arms in the Mexican Revolution under the command of Aquiles Serdn Alatriste, the first martyr of the Revolution. Bosques organized the First National Pedagogy Congress , and worked as a journalist with several newspapers and publications.

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