Publicaciones regionalistas de don Antonio Elviro Berdeguer

Résumé

The doctor Norberto-Antonio Elviro Berdeguer (1892-1936), born in Salorino (Cáceres), can be considered one of the fathers of Extremadura regionalism. His work, initially influenced by the Regeneracionism of Costa, was developed during the crisis of the Restoration and responded to an intense campaign for the redemption of Extremadura. Therefore encouraged the creation of newspapers and weeklies (Regionalism, the Region, Extremadura) or of regionalist Centres, and he expressed through lectures or newspaper articles his vision of the backwardness of Extremadura and its possible solutions. Supported by Francesc Cambó in his attempt to break the oligarchic control of the dynastic parties (Lliga Regionalista), he was frustrated candidate for elections to 1918 as Deputy for the district of Alcántara. As a summary of his ideas, in 1920 he defended his regionalist thesis in the Manifest Extremadura for the Extremaduran, with special attention to the agrarian question. President of the House of the village of Salorino, was arrested and executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War