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Sucesos de Hermigua

Hermigua, La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Sucesos de Hermigua

Historical milestone · Hermigua, La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Image of Hermigua, not of the place itself.

On 22 March 1933 the Guardia Civil put down a strike by farm labourers in Hermigua, leaving several dead; the episode is remembered as one of the harshest instances of social conflict in the Canary Islands during the Second Republic.

22 de marzo de 1933

Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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