Chasing the Ghosts of Franco

  • Photo essay by Álvaro Minguito Palomares, documentary photographer, photo coordinator for Diagonal and founding member of DISOPress Agency

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06.04.2014 - 16:46

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Narratively has published a harrowing photo essay by Álvaro Minguito Palomares of the mass graves in Spain that are being unearthed mostly by volunteers, since the government has eliminated all public funding. Minguito Palomares is a documentary photographer, photo coordinator for Madrid-based newspaper Diagonal and founding member of DISOPress Agency.

“In the summer of 1936, a fascist military coup led by Francisco Franco put an end to the democratic Spanish Republic that had been established in 1931. During and after the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936 and ended in 1939, more than 120,000 people were slaughtered by Franco’s forces and buried alongside roads and in fields. These people did not fight on the battlefield; they were simply arrested and killed for having political ideas that conflicted with those who led the fascist uprising. School teachers, farmers, doctors and laborers were all executed and buried in mass graves…” <Read more>

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