Salvador Borrego was born on April 24, 1915 in Mexico City, being the second son of the marriage of Onésimo Borrego Lozano and Otilia Escalante. He spent his childhood between the cities of
Durango and
Gómez Palacio. In 1932 he was orphaned by his mother, so his family moved to
Torreon. In that year he joined the
Mexican Army, where he was a line soldier and then a corporal, but he left in 1934 when he had no chance to climb the military ranks. Borrego began his career in
journalism in 1936, as a reporter of the Mexican newspaper
Excélsior where he eventually was appointed editor-in-chief. He became a
Nazi sympathizer in 1937, when Borrego perceived an
anti-German bias in the Mexican mass media, allegedly fostered by a
lobby of pro-Western advertisers. He has written several books, including
Derrota Mundial ("Worldwide Defeat"), published on 1953, in which he claims that the defeat of
Adolf Hitler and
Nazi Germany was a defeat for the entire world because the Nazis were fighting against what they believed to be an international
Jewish evil, and their plan to take over the
global economy. In
América Peligra ("The Americas in Danger"), published in 1964, he focuses the story on what he asserts is an
international Jewish conspiracy to provide what he claims to be the true account of the unfolding of historical events in
Mexico and
Latin America. In 1996
Catalan police closed a
bookstore managed by Spanish
Neo-Nazi Pedro Varela, and confiscated a host of Nazi books and publications, including those of Salvador Borrego. Varela was arrested, but the bookstore opened again several months later. Borrego
turned 100 on 24 April 2015. On 8 January 2018, Borrego died at the age of 102. ==See also==