Editing Indalecio Prieto (section)

==Exile==
[[File:Archivos del Movimiento Obrero (RPS 16-03-2021) busto de Indalecio Prieto.png|thumb|Indalecio Prieto (Juan Cristóbal, 1926).]]
He refrained from active political life for the remainder of the war, [[Exile|exiling]] himself to [[Mexico]].<ref>Preston, Paul. ''The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge.'' Harper Perennial. 2006. London. p. 319</ref> In 1945, toward the end of [[World War II]], he was one of those who attempted to form a republican government-in-exile and hoped to reach an accord with the [[monarchist]] opposition to [[Francisco Franco]], the ruler of Spain since the end of the Civil War, with a view to restoring Spanish democracy.<ref>Beevor, Antony. ''The battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939''. Penguin Books. London. 2006. p. 425</ref> The failure of that initiative led to his definitive retirement from active politics. He died in [[Mexico City]] in 1962.

In Mexico, he wrote several books, such as ''Palabras al viento'' (''Words in the Wind'', 1942), ''Discursos en América'' (''Discourses in America'', 1944) and at the end of his life, ''Cartas a un escultor: pequeños detalles de grandes sucesos'' (''Letters to a Sculptor: Small Details of Great events'', 1962).