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The anti-Franco activist and former Madrid political prisoner José María 'Chato' Galante has died on Saturday night as a result of the coronavirus. This is how his own account on the social network Twitter reports: "Unfortunately, Chato Galante has passed away tonight. All his colleagues are devastated, but we will continue in this fight. He was essential. That his work was not in vain" , pray the tweet posted on your account.
Chato Galante (Madrid, 1948) was a member of the association of prisoners and retaliators of the Franco dictatorship La Comuna and belonged to the Revolutionary Communist League when he was arrested and tortured up to four times between 1969 and 1973.
The general secretary of Podemos and second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, has lamented his death on social networks. "The Covid-19 has taken Chato Galante, a freedom fighter, political prisoner of the dictatorship, a fighter for universal justice and against torturers, one of Brecht's essentials. It breaks my soul. Until always, partner" Iglesias has written.
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