Juan Sánchez-Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias

Juan Sánchez-Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias (born January 13, 1876 in Mexico City , † May 18, 1938 ) was a Mexican , journalist , publisher , professor , senator and ambassador .

Life

Juan Sánchez Azcona y Díaz Covarrubia's mother died when he was six months old. After elementary school he accompanied his father Juan Sánchez Azcona, a lawyer who was appointed envoy on December 6, 1879 and from April 20, 1880 to August 20, 1888 was accredited to the Italian government at the Quirinal . This sent him to a boarding school in the German Reich . From 1892 he studied social science and political science at the Sorbonne and met Francisco Madero , Émile Zola and the Mexican consul in Paris Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.

In 1894 he returned to Mexico, found work in a bank and worked as a journalist. He had already copied his first newspaper, El Tipo , as a child and distributed it to his family. As a student in the German Reich, he published a newspaper with the title Der Freundeskreis . In Mexico he has now contributed to literary magazines such as Revista Azul , El Mundo Ilustrado , La Revista moderna and magazines such as El Partido Liberal , Nacional , El universal and EL Imparcial .

1904-1915

In 1904 he was elected to the Congress of the Union of Mexico , where he was a member of the 13th and 14th legislative periods until 1908. During this time he held a professorship for modern language at the Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración , founded a liberal newspaper closely related to the Partido Liberal Mexicano , and was in 1906 on the management of the newspaper El Diario , which advocated freedom of association for workers. In 1907 he reported a strike in a textile factory in Río Blanco (Veracruz) , which annoyed the secretariat for foreign relations . The government of Porfirio Diaz requested expulsion from the federal parliament with the charge of betrayal of secrets . In his contribution to the vote on his exclusion, Sanchez Azcona defended the right to freedom of expression and in the vote the government's motion was unanimously rejected. The Secretaría de Educación Pública filled his professorship for German, French and Italian elsewhere, whereupon he migrated to New Mexico and became active in the opposition to Francisco Madero, against Porfirio Díaz. After Madero announced his candidacy for the presidency, Sánchez Azcona published the second edition of the magazine México Nuevo in San Antonio and was a member of the editorial team of the Plan de San Luis , which was called for in 1910 to fight against Porfirio Díaz .

During Madero's presidency, he was its private secretary. In 1912 he chaired the debates of the electoral council of the 16th legislature and founded the magazine Nueva Era . Francisco Madero was murdered on February 22, 1913 on behalf of Victoriano Huerta . On January 6, 1914, Sánchez Azcona was appointed by Venustiano Carranza , commander of the Ejército Constitucionalista, as the Agente Confidencial for Europe. After the First World War began in Europe on August 1, 1914 , his residence with Madrid was concretized on September 22, 1914. On the way to Madrid he signed with Miguel Covarrubias Acosta on October 21, 1915 the receipt of the valuables of the Mexican finance company in London.

1916-1938

After Venustiano Carranza had prevailed as president, he appointed Sánchez Azcona to his Ministre plénipotentiaire (envoy) in the government of Alfonso XIII in 1916 . , Raymond Poincaré , Victor Emanuel III. and occupied Belgium . On April 17, 1917, he resigned from his post as ambassador to Europe, as he had been elected to the Senate of the Union of Mexico for Mexico City . During the tenure of Álvaro Obregón , from 1920 to 1924, he was employed in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores . Sánchez Azcona saw during the Guerra Cristera in the Dedazo of Obregón for Plutarco Elías Calles a violation of the ban on re-election and became a supporter of the candidate General Arnulfo R Gomez (* 1890 in Navojoa Sonora; † 1927), who was killed in an attempted coup in May 1927 Life came. As a result, he was forced to February 1930 after Havana to emigrate . He devoted the last eight years of his life to journalism again. He started the third edition of México Nuevo magazine and was a contributor to Humanitas and El Universal magazines.

predecessor	Office	successor
Amado Nervo	Mexican Ambassador to Madrid Appointed Agente Confidencial on January 6, 1914 from September 30, 1914 to March 16, 1916, appointed Ambassador on March 16 from June 13, 1916 to October 18, 1917 to the governments of France, Italy, United Kingdom , Belgium and Spain accredited.	Amado Nervo
Isidro Fabela	Mexican Agente Confidencial in London from August 4, 1915 to October 21, 1915.	Felix F. Palavicini (born March 31, 1881 in Teapa, Tabasco, † 1952)
Miguel Covarrubias Acosta	Mexican Agente Confidencial appointed in Berlin on August 4, 1915 until April 19, 1916	Rafael Zubarán Capmany
Isidro Fabela	Mexican Agente Confidencial in Paris on August 4, 1915 appointed to March 16, 1916.Accredited to Ambassador on March 16, 1916, from July 24, 1916 to December 2, 1918, he left France on December 15, 1918.	Rodolfo Minetti

predecessor	Office	successor
Isidro Fabela	Mexican agent confidencial in Stockholm on August 4, 1915, on October 9, 1916 he was called to report in Mexico.	Rafael Zubarán Capmany
Isidro Fabela	Mexican Ambassador to Brussels from August 4, 1915 to March 2, 1916 Agente Confidencial, appointed Ambassador on March 16, 1916 to April 17, 1917 to the Governments of France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Spain.	José Gaxiola y del Castillo Negrete
Isidro Fabela	Appointed Mexican Ambassador to Saint Petersburg on August 4, 1915 until April 17, 1917	Basilio Vadillo
Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero	Mexican Ambassador to Rome on January 6, 1914, appointed to March 7, 1916, Agente Confidencial on March 16, 1916, promoted to Ambassador from September 2, 1916 to April 17, 1917.	Eduardo Hay

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Sánchez Azcona, Gloria Sánchez Azcona, En el centenario del nacimiento de Juan Sánchez Azcona , Patronato del Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1975 - 151 p., P. 17.
2. ↑ http://www.cambiodigital.com.mx/mosno.php?nota=52567&seccion=Principal