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 wrestles with Franco’s resting place
A group of experts has recommended that Franco be exhumed and El Valle de los Caídos, the notorious monument to him, be transformed into a place of reconciliation. It’s extremely unlikely to happen, but one day Spain must resolve the conundrum presented by this sinister reminder of Francoism and the Civil War.
The man who knew Fidel Castro, Warhol and Franco’s Spain
Waldo Díaz-Balart used to be married to the sister of Cuba’s revolutionary former leader. But he remembers with more fondness his stint in 1960s New York, where he lived before settling in Madrid to develop his career as an abstract artist.
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.
How history will judge Zapatero
Many will remember Spain’s socialist prime minister for his mishandling of the economic crisis. But his legacy in other areas – particularly social reform – is substantial.
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.
Franco and the red pen
Spain’s Royal Academy of History is an outdated and ideologically questionable institution which has published a dictionary praising Franco. But its farcical view of history also reflects the low esteem in which the post of sub-editor is held in Spain.
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.
The Spanish holocaust
British historian Paul Preston’s latest book, ‘The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination during the Civil War and After’, makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Spanish Civil War, and the systematic policy of rape, murder and repression carried out by Franco’s forces.
Garzón appeals to Strasbourg over prosecution for Franco-era probe
Spain’s best-known and most divisive judge is hoping that the European Court of Human Rights will ensure justice prevails and that charges against him for daring to investigate crimes committed by the Franco dictatorship are dropped.
