SPAIN: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SPANIARDS AND MEMBERS FROM COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ATTEND FUNERAL OF "LA PASIONARIA"

Record ID: 861785

  • Title: SPAIN: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SPANIARDS AND MEMBERS FROM COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ATTEND FUNERAL OF "LA PASIONARIA"
  • Date: 16th November 1989
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (NOVEMBER 16, 1989) SCU AND SV RAN MAN HOLDING PICTURE OF LA PASIONARIA AND MOURNERS CHANTING AND RAISING FISTS (2 SHOTS) SVS HEARSE: ADVANCING THROUGH Crowd FILLED STREETS AS MOURNERS CHANT (5 SHOTS) GV PANS: AND SV HUGE CROWDS OF MOURNERS GATHERED AT PLAZA COLON AND CROWDS JAMMING STREETS AND CHANTING AS FUNERAL CORTEGE HEADS FOR CEMETERY (2 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 1st December 1989 12:00
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  • Location: Spain, Spain
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  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: General,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA7ZVIBM0K3HXBC17OQ0KQC2AYI
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  • Story Text: MADRID, SPAIN

    Spanish civil war heroine Dolores Gomez Ibarruri, "La Pasionaria," was burled in Madrid on Thursday. The 93-year-old Communist leader died of pneumonia in a Madrid Hospital on Sunday.

    Tens of thousands of Spaniards and members of Communist delegations from 78 countries bid farewell at an open-air ceremony to Dolores
    Ibarruri.

    An estimated 100,000 people of all ages crowded into and around the downtown Plaza Colon for the 20-minute afternoon ceremony, waving red flags and banners and shouting with fists raised: "No Pasaran."
    The crowd had followed the hearse bearing Ibarruri's coffin from Communist party headquarters to the plaza.

    La Pasionaria was buried in a municipal cemetery alongside the tomb
    of Spanish Socialist Party founder' Pablo Iglesias.

    Ibarruri, who spent 38 years in exile during the dictatorship of
    General Franco, returned from the Soviet Union in May 1977. She continued to be president of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE), although the post gradually became a mainly honorary position.

    Until her 90th birthday she went. to her office at party headquarters every day. More recently she had been confined by ill health to her Madrid flat.

    La Pasionaria's cry of "No Pasaran" (They shall not pass) became a rallying call of left-wing groups throughout the Spanish speaking world.

    She is survived by one of her four daughters, Amaya, and by three grandchildren.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - MIKE GORE</strong>
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