26 Facts About Leandro Carro

Leandro Carro Hernaez was a Spanish communist leader who was active in the Communist Party of Spain and the Communist Party of the Basque Country after its creation in 1935.

Leandro Carro Hernaez was born in 1890 in Zarraton, La Rioja.

Leandro Carro was the second son of a shoemaker who had thirteen children.

Leandro Carro was apprenticed to an iron molder at the age of nine.

Leandro Carro was raised in Biscay, and was introduced to politics by Facundo Perezagua.

Leandro Carro agitated for the Agrupacion Socialista in San Sebastian and Pasajes, and later in Bilbao.

Leandro Carro was an apprentice in the Vitoria-Gasteiz ironworks when he was arrested in 1909 for distributing propaganda against the Moroccan War.

Leandro Carro was imprisoned in 1912 for activity in the workers' struggles in Pasajes.

Leandro Carro joined the Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol and the Union General de Trabajadores.

Leandro Carro remained in exile in Paris until an amnesty was declared.

Leandro Carro returned in 1918 and was elected president of the Sindicato Metalurgico de Vizcaya.

Leandro Carro represented the union of the 13th congress of the UGT in 1918, and in the 14th congress in 1920.

Leandro Carro attended the Extraordinary Congress of the PSOE in 1920 as delegate of the AS of Bilbao.

Leandro Carro was one of the founders of the Partido Comunista de Espana.

The PCE had little help from the Communist-Syndicalists led by Joaquin Maurin, and Carro received few votes.

In 1935 Leandro Carro was one of the members of the Spanish delegation to the 7th Congress of the Communist International.

Leandro Carro traveled to Moscow with Juan Astigarrabia and Santiago Carrillo.

In 1936 Leandro Carro was elected to the Cortes Generales as deputy for Bilbao.

At the time of the 18 July 1936 military revolt that began the Spanish Civil War Leandro Carro was on a propaganda tour.

Leandro Carro learned what was happening near Astorga and joined a group of railway workers.

Leandro Carro stayed with the guerrillas until he could move to Portugal.

Leandro Carro went into hiding in the north of Portugal to avoid the police of Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who was hostile to communists.

Leandro Carro was in Lisbon in December 1939 where he applied for permission to travel to Mexico.

On 19 May 1948 Aguirre wrote to Leandro Carro explaining that the PCE should retire from the government due to their incompatibility with the socialists, although he would retain normal and friendly relations with the communists.

Leandro Carro was arrested for his political activities and expelled from France.

Leandro Carro moved to Dresden in East Germany, where he died in 1967.