Luis Delage García (Madrid, 26 of August of 1908 - id., 2 of July of 1991) was a Spanish communist politician. Biography
He was a member of the Madrid provincial leadership of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). He emphasized during the Civil War, being successively political commissary of the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Popular Army, of the 4th Division, of the V Army Corps and general commissar of the Army of the Ebro under the command of Juan Modesto. p>
Following the Republican defeat in the Battle of the Ebro, he went into exile in France along the Catalonian border, serving as a liaison between the Soviet embassy and the Central Committee of the PCE. He helped several soldiers in his unit have time to embark on the road to exile in Latin America. Then he marched to Cuba via New York. In 1941 he was in Havana, where Juan José Manso, Wenceslao Roces and Felix Montiel formed a committee of the Communist Party, headed by Santiago Álvarez Gómez, who in the guise of a cultural institution was used in some cases as a kind of " consulate "of communist emigration in the Caribbean. In 1944 and principles of 1945 he was part of the group of advisers of the Central Committee of the PCE in exile, later, to be sent back to Spain via Buenos Aires. In November 1946 he was the only high leader of the Communist Party in the interior of Spain who was able to escape the Madrid police raid that led the party leadership.
Under the orders of the party, and to avoid being arrested and killed, he fled to Paris. In 1959, during the Cold War, and after the repression against the PCE in France, emigrated to Prague, where he was reunited with Juan Modesto and Enrique Lister. He returned to Spain after the death of dictator Franco, passing away in Madrid in 1991.
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