Eduardo de Guzmán Espinosa (19 June 1908 in Villada – 25 July 1991 in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

) was a Spanish journalist and writer, popular during the

Second Spanish Republic The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of Alfonso XIII, King Alfonso XIII. ...

. He was known for his press reports and journalism during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...

following the

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ideology. He was arrested at the end of the civil war. In January 1940, he was sentenced to death by a military court, together with the poet

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, but his sentence was commuted to a prison term in May 1941, and he was granted conditional freedom in 1943.

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