Antonio "Toño" Salazar was a Salvadoran

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

 caricaturist, illustrator

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 and diplomat

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. Born in Santa Tecla

Santa Tecla, El Salvador

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, in 1920 he went to study in Mexico

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 on an art

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 scholarship

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 then in 1922 traveled to France

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 to join the throng of artists and writers from around the world who were living, working, and learning in the Montparnasse Quarter

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 of Paris

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.

Salazar became friends with Mexican writer/diplomat José María González de Mendoza and the Guatemala

Guatemala

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n writer Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Luis Cardoza y Aragón

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. He did the illustrations for Aragón's 1923 book Luna Park. A leftist

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, in the 1930s he worked as a propagandist

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 for the Republican

Second Spanish Republic

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 cause in Spain

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. During World War II

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 he went to Buenos Aires

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 where he was employed as an illustrator and caricaturist at the socialist weekly magazine Argentina Libre. Salazar published satires of Adolf Hitler

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, General Franco

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, Benito Mussolini

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 and Argentina's rising star, Juan Perón

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. The right-wing

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 government closed Argentina Libre and Salazar was forced to leave the country. He traveled to Montevideo

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, Uruguay

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 where he remained until 1949 when he was allowed back into Buenos Aires for a time.

In the early 1950s, the new El Salvador government of President Óscar Osorio

Óscar Osorio

Óscar Osorio ruled as a member of the revolutionary government Council of December 14, 1948 to September 14, 1950...

 gave Toño Salazar a diplomatic appointment in Montevideo. He spent twenty years serving in various consulate offices in Uruguay, France, Italy

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, and Israel

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. In 1978, his country awarded him the Order of José Matías Delgado and the Premio Nacional de Cultura.

Toño Salazar died in 1986 in San Salvador from Parkinson's disease

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. A significant collection of his work is at the El Salvador Museum of Art in San Salvador who held a major exhibition of his works in 2005 and who named a reception hall in his honor.

Toño Salazar's work was a strong influence on the Cuba

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n caricaturist Juan David.