Antonio Goicoechea

Who is Antonio Goicoechea?

Antonio Goicoechea was an Alfonsine monarchist in Spain during the period of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He led the Renovación Española political party. Prior to the Civil War, Goicoechea in 1934 had negotiated alongside Carlist monarchists with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on a military agreement that would guarantee Italian support of their movements should a civil war erupt in Spain. However when the Civil War did erupt in 1936, it had not been initiated by Goicoechea or other members of the agreement, but rather a group of army officers, thus Goicoechea's agreement with Mussolini did not go forward.