
Cancel Culture à l’espagnole: The Fate of the Francoist Nobility
Under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, the Francoist nobility was collectively singled out for extirpation, and its heads of family found themselves officially ‘disennobled.’

Under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, the Francoist nobility was collectively singled out for extirpation, and its heads of family found themselves officially ‘disennobled.’

A segment of Spanish society—the Left’s leaders, if not their voters—has been too quick to paper over the difference between lawful politics and violence.

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.