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                <text>Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.</text>
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              <text> Luis Andrés Edo, Albert Meltzer, Doris Ensinger (Luis's partner)</text>
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              <text>Barcelona, La Rambla, 1986&#13;
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Stuart on the life of Luis Andrés Edo:&#13;
"1946 – Sent to the Modelo prison for “pilfering from a goods train”, charged with having stolen a sack of potatoes (as part of a “campaign” to feed families during the hungry years)&#13;
1947 – On military service near the French-Spanish border, deserted for the first time on 27 December.&#13;
In France, came into contact with CNT activists.&#13;
1951 – First clandestine trip back to Spain.&#13;
1952 – In August, second clandestine trip to Spain. Arrested. Taken to the fortress in Figueres, convicted for desertion and jailed there until…&#13;
1954 – Escaped a second time.&#13;
He then lived in Paris where he made the acquaintance of Laureano Cerrada, El Quico, etc. Became a member of the Libertarian Youth (FIJL).&#13;
1961 . – Joined Defensa Interior.&#13;
1966 – Was arrested with comrades in Madrid in October and given a 9 year jail term, being freed in 1972 under the amnesty granted in relation to the MATESA affair.&#13;
1974 – Arrested in June in Barcelona following the abduction in Paris of the banker Baltasar Suárez. Freed under an amnesty in June 1976.&#13;
December 1976 – April 1977 – Coordinating Secretary of the Regional Committee of Catalonia (resigned together with other Regional Committee members).&#13;
October 1980. – Arrested in the wake of Lucio Uturbia’s arrest in Paris and questioned for a fortnight under “anti-terrorist legislation”. Held until August 1981. Tried in October 1984 and acquitted of all charges.&#13;
1985-1987. – Director of Solidaridad Obrera.&#13;
December 1988. – Appointed secretary of the Catalonian Regional Committee, holding this post until he resigned in 1990 after making a complaint of corruption against Prenafeta and being shunned and criticised by a number of comrades and trade unions.&#13;
December 1988. – Elected president of the Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo (a post he held until June 1989).&#13;
1990-2002. – Elected four times on to the board of the Fundació d’Estudis Llibertaris y anarcosindicalistes (FELLA).&#13;
1993. – Co-organiser of the ‘Anarchist World Exhibition’.&#13;
2003 – Published La Corriente. The manuscript was written surreptitiously while in prison in 1968. Published by the FELLA.&#13;
2006. – Published La CNT en la encrucijada. Aventuras de un heterodoxo (publisher, Ed.Flor de Viento, Barcelona)."&#13;
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