Garzón affair reflects Spain’s tortured relationship with its past
Spain’s best-known judge goes on trial today for having dared attempt to investigate human rights violations during the Franco dictatorship.
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Spain’s Civil War film canon needs new urgency
Plenty of excellent movies about this traumatic period in Spain’s history have been made. New drama ‘The Sleeping Voice’ isn’t one of them.
Spain’s buried past
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Spain’s Second Republic. But with many mass graves from the Civil War era still not excavated and those who dare probe the crimes of the past facing legal action themselves, the country still appears reluctant to face up to its violent past.
Spain’s conflicting memories refuse to fade
The recent controversy sparked by the publication of an apparently pro-Franco dictionary is the latest in a string of developments that highlight Spain’s continuing tussle with its historical memory.
Baltasar Garzón: a judge too far?
Spain’s most famous and reviled magistrate has gone into exile. After years spent tackling big cases, his attempts to probe the crimes of the Franco era appear to have brought his career in Spain to a premature end.
March 11′s divisive legacy
The sixth anniversary of the 2004 Madrid bombings is a reminder of how a terrorist attack helped set the tone of Spanish politics. Moreover, the divisions it highlighted are just as visible today, as the country stubbornly refuses to face up to its recent past.
