Alberto Bayo y Giroud was a Cuba

Cuba

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n military

Military

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 leader of the defeated left-wing

Left-wing politics

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 Loyalists

Second Spanish Republic

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 in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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. He was also a poet and essayist.

He was born in Cuba

Cuba

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 and studied in the United States

United States

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 and Spain

Spain

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. Bayo's most significant action during the Spanish Civil War was his invasion and retreat from the island of Majorca.

After that war was lost, Bayo had a furniture factory in Mexico

Mexico

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, and is said to have been an instructor at the Military Academy of Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Jalisco

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. Bayo had contact in Mexico with prominent Latin America

Latin America

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n revolutionaries, and was associate/mentor of some, including Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

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. While it is not known if he continued direct contact with Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 agents such as "Comandante Carlos Contreras" Vittorio Vidali

Vittorio Vidali

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 after the war was lost in Spain, both were present in Mexico for throughout the same period.

Alberto Bayo died a General of the Cuban Armed Forces

Military of Cuba

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Bayo as author and poet

• Cualquier cosilla (poesía), España, 1911
• Mis cantos de aspirante (poesía), España, 1911
• Cadetadas (poesía), España, 1912
• Canciones del Alkázar (poesía), España, 1914
• Juan de Juanes (novela), España, 1926
• Uncida al yugo (novela), España, 1926
• Dos años en Gomara, España, 1928
• La guerra será de los guerrilleros, España, 1937
• El tenorio laico (poesía), España, 1938
• Mi desembarco en Mallorca, México, 1944
• Tempestad en el Caribe, México, 1950
• Cámara, México (historia), 1951
• El caballero de los tristes destinos (capitán Alonso de Ojeda), México, 1953
• Magallanes, el hombre más audaz de la tierra, México, 1953
• 150 preguntas a un guerrillero, México, 1955
• Fidel te espera en la Sierra (poesía), México, 1958
• Mis versos de rebeldía, México, 1958
• Sangre en Cuba (poesía), México, 1958
• Mi aporte a la revolución cubana, 1960
• El tenorio cubano (poesía), 1960
• Versos revolucionarios, 130 pp, 1960
• Mis versos, 223 pp, 1965

External links and references

• Cubaliteraria: Albert Bayo (Spanish)
• wannadoo: Alberto Bayo (Spanish)
• El Ejército Popular Republicano (Spanish)
• España en Guerra (Spanish) (.pdf)
• Alberto Bayo: Gerilla Nedir? (Turkish)