José Ballvé Martínez, the Director of Transports Who Signed a Manifesto "for the Total Victory of the People" and Wept with the Fall of Bilbao

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From the PCE and general director of Transport of the government of Euzkadi, he suffered reprisals for "being leftist and Basque nationalist" and ended up exiled in Mexico José Ballvé Martínez (1879-1962) was general director of Transport of the government of Euzkadi. He was born in Bilbao, although son of Catalan father. He studied first Sciences in Salamanca; then, for engineer of roads and mines in Deusto; later, at the School of Industrial E…