Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain's slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?
15 April 2024

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain’s slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?
The search for persons disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, a search backed by the United Nations and overshadowed by political debate, has resulted in the exhumation of just 800 mass graves over the last two decades, out of a total of around 3,500. It is a fragile advance that risks being stopped in its tracks.Read the full article
By María José Carmona
Keywords
Politics & economy
, Democracy, History, Civil society, Far-right