Support for unconditional Committee Transporting the mortal remains of Rafael Altamira and his wife Pilar Redondo to El Campello. President Carlos Mazón Committed to supporting this process financially Promoted by Campellero City Council to repatriate humanists Mexican.
Mazón handed over his personal and institutional support to Juanjo Berenguer (PP), mayor of El Campello, to the operation to retrieve the bodies of lawyer and wife Pilar Redondo, who is resting in Mexico City. The province will support the institution”whatever it takesThe City Council announced on Monday that the transfer of both to the El Campello cemetery should happen “as soon as possible”.
The commitment took shape in a period last week. City Palace visit Juanjo Berenguer and Lourdes Llopis (PP), the first deputy mayor of Campellera, to explain to Mazón the details of the operation, Contacts in front of the Spanish embassy in Mexico and the Mexican embassy in Spain, private funeral company In such transfers and family of the lawyer who fully supported the family member’s return to Spain.
With this support, four levels of public administration have committed to return: local, provincial, regional and national. Juanjo Berenguer’s aim is, Institutions at the academic, legal, cultural, social and scientific levels are also added.“Until this becomes a public issue,” says the first mayor.
The mayor and his family agreed in April to start this process, and last June The Spanish Ambassador to Mexico has already sent his death certificate to the El Campello City Council. Thus, we have taken the first step of a process that is expected to be complex. Demanding the support of the Consistory, the Generalitat and the central Government of Diputación, the three administrations expressed their willingness to cooperate, and Diputación has already expressed its commitment to assist in the operation, even financially, so that Altamira’s remains remain in the Hand. campello, where is your family burieda municipality of retire after retirementAs he announced before he went into exile in the Central American country in 1944.
The first institution to take decisive and firm steps, Embassy of Spain in MexicoIt was led by Juan López-Dóriga Pérez, who appointed Consul General Manuel Hernández Ruigómez. Logistics support to the cause of campellera. As a first action, the consul found the death certificate of Rafael Altamira, which was registered in the consulate’s Civil Status Register on April 3, 1952, ten months after his death. The next step, again entrusted to Manuel Hernández,the exact location of the author’s grave and his wife in the Spanish pavilion of the cemetery located in the Mexican capital bad protection statusas well as facilitating direct contact between Mexican authorities to process the couple’s request for repatriation.
the mayor sent cards head of Diputacion; head generalitat, Ximo Puig; minister foreign affairs, Jose Manuel Albares; minister Culture, Miquel Iceta; Juan López-Dóriga, Spanish Ambassador to Mexico and Mexican Ambassador to SpainQuirino Ordaz for requesting cooperation for this comeback.
In any case, Berenguer explained in his letter the reasons why he recommended the project, requesting institutional support and, in the case of the Spanish authorities – Diputación, Generalitat and the central Government – to share with El the costs of the transfer process. Of the mortal remains of Altamira and his wife, Campello, the cost is unknown.
Born in Alicante in 1866, lawyer He died in the Mexican capital in 1951., where he lived in exile and his remains are found in a tomb in the Spanish Pavilion of the Federal District cemetery, in a grave showing great deterioration, abandoned and headstone broken. And all because he was a universal native of Alicante, not only because he was the first Spaniard to form part of what is now known as the International Court in The Hague, but also because he was a native of Alicante. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize and was honorary doctorate by the universities of Bordeaux, Paris, Mexico, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Columbia and Cambridge.