Entre España y México, la libertad [Between Spain and Mexico, freedom]

El embajador Félix Gordón Ordás y su evocación de la figura del navarro Javier Mina en el marco de la Guerra Civil española [Ambassador Félix Gordón Ordás and his evocation of the figure of Navarre Javier Mina in the framework of the Spanish Civil War]

Abstract

In September 1936, when Spain was already the scene of a bloody civil war, the repu-blican Félix Gordón Ordás, in his capacity as ambassador of Spain to Mexico, made a particular evocation of the figure of Javier Mina on the occasion of the writing of a prologue to a book by Rafael Ramos Pedrueza written about this Mexican national hero, in a Marxist key. Given the semantic importance of the manuscript, the objective of this article is to analyze the narrative proposal of our prologuist and to make an interpretation of the foundations that supported his narrative hagiography about this guerrilla and insurgent from Navarre, made by the author into an ecumenical symbol of freedom.