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Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, but he is moving
Deep in a mountainside 40 miles outside Madrid, past a gift shop, a pair of immense, sword-wielding angels, and a tapestry of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in full rampage, lie the remains of Francisco Franco.
Fresh red and white carnations sit on top of the simple stone slab that marks the tomb of the fascist dictator. On the other side of the altar, similarly garlanded, lies José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falangist party.
Apart from a far-left militant bomb attack 18 years ago that destroyed a few confessionals and pews, the pair’s long occupancy of the basilica of the Valley of the Fallen has been peaceful, if enduringly controversial.
However, El Caudillo’s time in the cavernous mausoleum could be coming to an end. On Thursday, Spanish MPs approved a symbolic resolution to exhume Franco from his tomb and have him re-interred elsewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/its-shameful-for-francos-victims-spanish-mps-agree-to-exhume-dictator
Fresh red and white carnations sit on top of the simple stone slab that marks the tomb of the fascist dictator. On the other side of the altar, similarly garlanded, lies José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falangist party.
Apart from a far-left militant bomb attack 18 years ago that destroyed a few confessionals and pews, the pair’s long occupancy of the basilica of the Valley of the Fallen has been peaceful, if enduringly controversial.
However, El Caudillo’s time in the cavernous mausoleum could be coming to an end. On Thursday, Spanish MPs approved a symbolic resolution to exhume Franco from his tomb and have him re-interred elsewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/its-shameful-for-francos-victims-spanish-mps-agree-to-exhume-dictator