Salvador Borrego Escalante (24 April 1915 – 8 January 2018) was a Mexican journalist and historical revisionist writer. He published fifty-three books in fields such as military history, politics, economics, journalism, philosophy and religion. His work bore heavy criticism and he has been accused of

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because he places international Jewish capital and Zionist ideology as the cause of

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. Borrego has been considered by some critics and readers as an apologist and sympathizer of fascism.

Biography

Salvador Borrego was born on April 24, 1915 in Mexico City, being the second son of the marriage of Onésimo Borrego Lozano and Otilia Escalante. He spent his childhood between the cities of

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and Gómez Palacio. In 1932 he was orphaned by his mother, so his family moved to Torreon. In that year he joined the

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, where he was a line soldier and then a corporal, but he left in 1934 when he had no chance to climb the military ranks. Borrego began his career in

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in 1936, as a reporter of the Mexican newspaper

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where he eventually was appointed editor-in-chief. He became a Nazi sympathizer in 1937, when Borrego perceived an anti-German bias in the Mexican mass media, allegedly fostered by a lobby of pro-Western advertisers. He has written several books, including '' Derrota Mundial'' ("Worldwide Defeat"), published on 1953, in which he claims that the defeat of

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and

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was a defeat for the entire world because the Nazis were fighting against what they believed to be an international

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ish evil, and their plan to take over the

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. In '' América Peligra'' ("The Americas in Danger"), published in 1964, he focuses the story on what he asserts is an

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to provide what he claims to be the true account of the unfolding of historical events in

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and

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. In 1996 Catalan police closed a

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managed by Spanish

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Pedro Varela, and confiscated a host of Nazi books and publications, including those of Salvador Borrego. Varela was arrested, but the bookstore opened again several months later. Borrego turned 100 on 24 April 2015. On 8 January 2018, Borrego died at the age of 102.

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