Franco Lives!
Pedro Sánchez’ fixation on Franco is reigniting an interest in the past that could backfire on the Left, which has much to hide about its role in the Civil War and dictatorship.
Pedro Sánchez’ fixation on Franco is reigniting an interest in the past that could backfire on the Left, which has much to hide about its role in the Civil War and dictatorship.
The country’s political Left has consistently used the specter of the Civil War as a political tool to rally its most radical flank.
The defunct law imposed an ideological spin on the Spanish Civil War
Legal associations have slammed the appointment of Dolores Delgado, noting her romantic relationship with a former judge who heads the main organisation likely to present her cases.
This comes after relatives of the deceased filed a complaint last Thursday, asking that a 2016 sentence requiring this exhumation be carried out.
The Catalan government does nothing to investigate hundreds of corpses belonging to Civil War era victims of the Popular Front.
Apart from deciding who is eligible for financial compensation, the Law of Historical Memory from 2007 has been used to define how history is taught. Its trajectory will be accelerated with the Law of Democratic Memory of 2022.