Salvador Borrego Escalante
BornSalvador Borrego Escalante
(1915-04-24)24 April 1915
Mexico City, Mexico
Died8 January 2018(2018-01-08) (aged 102)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationWriter

Salvador Borrego Escalante (24 April 1915 – 8 January 2018) was a Mexican journalist and historical revisionist writer.[1][2][3]

He published fifty-three books in fields such as military history, politics, economics, journalism, philosophy and religion. His texts have been heavily criticized and he has been accused of anti-Semitism because he places international Jewish capital and Zionist ideology as the cause of World War II.[4]

Borrego has been considered by some critics and readers as an apologist and sympathizer of fascism.[5]

Biography

Salvador Borrego was born on April 24, 1915 in Mexico City, being the second son of the marriage of Onésimo Borrego Lozano and Otilia Escalante. He spent his childhood between the cities of Durango and Gómez Palacio. In 1932 he was orphaned by his mother, so his family moved to Torreon. In that year he joined the Mexican Army, where he was a line soldier and then a corporal, but he left in 1934 when he had no chance to climb the military ranks.[6]

Borrego began his career in journalism in 1936, as a reporter of the Mexican newspaper Excélsior where he eventually was appointed editor-in-chief. He became a Nazi sympathizer in 1937, when Borrego perceived an anti-German bias in the Mexican mass media, allegedly fostered by a lobby of pro-Western advertisers.[7]

He has written several books, including Derrota Mundial ("Worldwide Defeat"), published on 1953, in which he claims that the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany was a defeat for the entire world because the Nazis were fighting against what they believed to be an international Jewish evil, and their plan to take over the global economy. In América Peligra ("The Americas in Danger"), published in 1964, he focuses the story on what he asserts is an international Jewish conspiracy to provide what he claims to be the true account of the unfolding of historical events in Mexico and Latin America.

In 1996 Catalan police closed a bookstore managed by Spanish Neo-Nazi Pedro Varela, and confiscated a host of Nazi books and publications, including those of Salvador Borrego.[8] Varela was arrested, but the bookstore opened again several months later. Borrego turned 100 on 24 April 2015.[9]

On 8 January 2018, Borrego died at the age of 102.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Antisemitism and the Extreme Right in Spain (1962–1997)". Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2015. A special issue of CEDADE's bulletin included contributions by Léon Degrelle, Wilfred von Oven (Goebbels' assistant in the Ministry of Propaganda), Salvador Borrego (Mexican neo-Nazi propagandist and writer), Florentin Rost van Tonningen (wife of Dutch Nazi leader Meinoud van Tonningen), Thies Christophersen (German Nazi propagandist sheltered in Denmark)... In addition, CEDADE produced a "Wagnerian Travel Guide" and a reprint of Degrelle's book, Fascinating Hitler.
  2. ↑ Buchrucker, Cristián (1996). "The extreme right in Argentina and its post‐war evolution". Patterns of Prejudice. 30 (4): 5–16. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1996.9970201. ...Henry Ford's The International Jew, Hidden Origins of the Second World War by the Mexican Nazi sympathizer Salvador Borrego...
  3. ↑ LAURA RAFAEL (September 2006). "THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN THE RECENT MEXICAN NOVEL A STUDY OF FIVE HISTORICAL NOVELS BY ELENA GARRO, CARLOS FUENTES, FERNANDO DEL PASO, PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II AND ROSA BELTRÁN" (PDF). Retrieved March 16, 2015. Some historians consider historical revisionism as a strongly politically-determined pseudohistory. While some of them are highly-regarded historians trying to decipher past events to shed light on new discoveries, others pretend to influence their readers and manipulate them in a political way. In Mexico, the historian Salvador Borrego is considered as a revisionist. The dangers of this way of researching the past are evident through the example of a radical version of it: the denial of the Holocaust, by a group that claimed to be historical revisionists that arose after the Second World War. They disputed, with little or no evidence, widely accepted facts about the Holocaust inventing hypotheses such as the fact that no Jews were gassed or that the Holocaust was a Zionist conspiracy
  4. ↑ Zócalo (2018-01-12). "Salvador Borrego Escalante" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  5. ↑ "Salvador Borrego: vigente "la derrota mundial"". Proceso (in Spanish).
  6. ↑ Velasco Barba, Rodrigo Ruiz (2019-06-05). "Entre la cruz gamada y la cruz de Cristo: apuntes para examinar el antijudaísmo de Salvador Borrego Escalante". Con-temporánea. ISSN 2007-9605.
  7. ↑ "¿Quién es Salvador Borrego E.?". Libreria Vigente la Derrota Mundial® (in Spanish). 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  8. ↑ "Antisemitism and the Extreme Right in Spain (1962–1997)". Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2015. In December 1996, the Catalonian autonomous police closed the Europa bookstore managed by Pedro Varela. Numerous Nazi books and publications denying the Holocaust were confiscated, along with videotapes, pamphlets, and other materials in Spanish, English, and German. Page proofs of new publications yet to go to press were also confiscated, demonstrating the Europa was one of the largest producers of antisemitic material in Europe. Indeed, Librería Europa's 1996 catalogue listed several publications about the composer Richard Wagner, Nordic and Scandinavian mythology, Nazi art, the Luftwaffe and Waffen SS, works by Julius Evola, and various Holocaust denial publications by Erik Norling, Carlos Caballero, and Salvador Borrego. Varela was arrested, and place on provisional liberty awaiting the trial. Thus, with the new law, it is possible to curb the activities of racist groups. However, Librería Europa was open again after a few months.
  9. ↑ "Salvador Borrego, el periodista mexicano más longevo: 100 años de edad" (in Spanish). MonitorBC.info. 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
  10. ↑ "Fallece el periodista Salvador Borrego Escalante - Quadratín". 2018-01-09.
  11. ↑ "Muere a los 102 años Salvador Borrego, revisionista histórico". 2018-01-09.
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