30.1.2019

Mexico City (Mexico)

In the framework of the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Spanish exile, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wanted to convey "the deep gratitude and recognition of Spanish society" to the generosity of Mexico and the Government of Lázaro Cárdenas with the first Spaniards who fled Spain after the Civil War. Sánchez has participated in the central event held at the Colegio de México, an institution created by the government of the Central American country in 1938, which hosted Spanish researchers and intellectuals loyal to the Republic. This center today is one of the most outstanding institutions in the Hispanic world. In the words of Pedro Sánchez, and in memory of the almost half a million people who left the country "I can think of no more terrible sentence for a human being than to abandon your family, your friends, your own language, your whole identity. Exile is always abominable." He also wanted to highlight the "prodigious cultural fruit of the republican exile in this country that contributed to feeding the conscience of the Spaniards of the interior", and that today represent the College of Mexico and the Spanish Athenaeum.

They organize: College of Mexico and Embassy of Spain in Mexico.