Antolín Pulido

Antolín Pulido Vázquez (born 23 October 1962) is a Spanish anarcho-communist writer, broadcaster, conflict mediator and human rights activist. He has worked in several conflict zones as a member of the Peace Brigades International.

Early life Antolín Pulido was born in 1962 in Talavera de la Reina, in the province of Toledo.

After travelling as a young man, Pulido returned to Spain in 1978 after the end of the Franco dictatorship, where he was tortured by the police in the cells of Madrid's Puerta del Sol, coming into contact with Antonio González Pacheco. After that he returned to Cuba, where he studied pedagogy, anthropology and social theater at the University of Havana. After completing his higher education, he obtained the rank of military lieutenant and became a volunteer brigadier in Angola, where he became a mayor of the Cuban army.

At the end of the 1970s, when Pulido was 17 years old, he met a Chilean woman named Jimena on the Isla de la Juventud. She was murdered while pregnant by the death flights of the Pinochet regime, after which Pulido pledged "to fight anything that means something like Jimena's murderers."

As an international brigadista, Pulido has worked as a mediator in war conflicts in Rwanda, Sarajevo and Tindouf, participated in the evacuations of children and slaves, and assisted various NGOs in emergency situations, humanitarian aid and development cooperation.

Works

2016 – La memoria de los Nadie. Volumen 1. . 2016 – La memoria de los Nadie. Volumen 2. 2016 – La memoria de los Nadie. Volumen 3. 2019 – Teatrillos con memoria. (Teatro) Editorial Buenos Días República. 2019 – Textos de Combate de ahorita mismo Textos urgentes de cuentautar de guardia Panfletos de amor y lucha Isla Resistencia Justicia a traguitos carrasposos Nosotras Textos de combate de ahorita mismo Caramelos de acero Cuaderno de bitácora de Quico Sangre verde