Augusto Ibanez Serrano: The informal agent of Franco'S Spain In Mexico (1936-1950) Augusto Ibáñez Serrano: El agente oficioso de la España Franquista en México (1936-1950)

© 2019 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.The objective of this article is to analyze the figure and work of Augusto Ibanez Serrano, an Aragonese who emigrated to Mexico in 1900 and who, much later, would become the unofficial representative of General Franco's Spain in his host country for 14 years. Due to his career, we are in the presence of a key figure to understand the complex diplomatic relations between Spain and Mexico, during and after the Spanish Civil War, as well as to decipher the great tensions experienced within the National Movement in the struggle to exercise hegemony and control over Spanish interests in a country that never recognized the Caudillo regime. In fact, and as will be demonstrated, Ibanez Serrano was the great promoter of the dismantling of the Spanish Falange in Mexico.