Brigadier General Brigadier general or Brigade general is a military rank used in many countries. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries. The rank is usually above a colonel, and below a major general or divisional general. When appointed ...

Engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

Juan Francisco Azcárate Pino (December 8, 1896 – June 2, 1987) was an officer in the

Mexican military The Mexican Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas de México) are the military forces of the Mexico, United Mexican States. The Spanish crown established a standing military in New Spain, colonial Mexico in the eighteenth century. After Mexican ind ...

, a diplomat, and a designer of

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. As chief of the department of

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, Azcárate oversaw the manufacture of military aircraft of his own design at the National Aviation Workshops. He was later appointed military attaché to the Mexican embassy in the United States, and during World War II was minister of the Mexican embassy in Germany. His published works include ''Un Programa Político Internacional'' (1932), ''Esencia de la Revolución'', (1966) and ''Trilogía Moderna Contemporánea (1978)''.

References

* * Zavala, Juan Roberto. (2005) ''Científicos y tecnólogos de Nuevo León Diccionario Biográfico.'' Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Nuevo León: Monterrey, 23. * 1896 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Mexican engineers Mexican people of Basque descent {{Mexico-engineer-stub