Bernabé Argüelles de Paz

Bernabé Argüelles de Paz (1912–1943) was an Asturian anarchist.

Bernabé Argüelles de Paz
Born	1912 (1912) Lena, Asturias, Spain
Died	24 March 1943(1943-03-24) (aged 30–31) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Allegiance	CNT
Service	Confederal militias (1936–1937) Spanish Republican Army (1937–1939)
Years of service	1936–1939
Unit	133rd Mixed Brigade
Battles / wars	Spanish Civil War

Biography

Born in the Asturian town of Pola de Lena in 1912, he was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT). After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the anarcho-syndicalist militias.^[a] Later he became part of the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army, serving as commissar of the 133rd Mixed Brigade.^[2] At the end of the war he was detained by the nationalists, being imprisoned in the provincial prison of Huesca.^{[citation needed]}

Thanks to the intervention of the Ponzán group, in mid-1940 he was able to escape from prison together with other imprisoned anarchists.^[1] He managed to reach Catalonia, where he developed an intense activity underground. Argüelles was part of the Aragón-Cataluña interregional committee of the CNT.^[3] On 8 March 1943 he was arrested by Francoist security forces. Tried by a court-martial, he was sentenced to death and executed by garrote on 24 March 1943 in Barcelona.^[4][5]

Notes

1. Some sources incorrectly place him as commander of the 127th Mixed Brigade.^[1]