Calle Bermúdez Cañete

Antonio Bermúdez Cañete was born in Baena, Córdoba, in 1898. He earned a doctorate in Economics, though he never reached the chair he sought. He wrote on economics as an editorial writer, and in October 1932 he arrived in Berlin as correspondent for El Debate, the great Catholic daily of the day, from where he followed closely the rise of Nazism to power. His reports on the German regime went down badly in Berlin: in January 1935 he was expelled from the country, accused of slandering the Nazi regime. Back in Spain he entered politics and was elected deputy for Madrid in the elections of February 1936, within the ranks of the CEDA. When the Civil War broke out he was arrested and taken to the checa set up in the Círculo de Bellas Artes. From there he was taken out to be killed on 21 August 1936. He was thirty-eight. The street is a short stretch of Nueva España, the neighbourhood of regular blocks north of Chamartín raised in the mid-twentieth century.