Republican victims that Spain's historical memory law overlooks
Joaquín Amigo, a friend of Lorca, murdered by Republican militiamen on 27 August 1936: the victims from the other side that official memory ignores.
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Historical memory: the forgotten victims from the other side
Who was Joaquín Amigo? If official memory doesn't tell us, it's hard to know. Professor of Philosophy at the Lanjarón secondary school, driving force behind the magazine Gallo and close friend of Federico García Lorca, Amigo was kidnapped and thrown off Ronda's Puente Nuevo on 27 August 1936, nine days after the secretary of the Civil Governor of Granada ordered the poet's execution in Víznar. His body, like Lorca's, was never found.
The list of the forgotten doesn't stop there. Prosecutor Valentín Gamazo, who secured the conviction of Largo Caballero, was murdered afterwards along with all his children, as newspaper archives record. Meanwhile, the names of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Onésimo Redondo and Ramiro Ledesma are conspicuously absent from the lists of fallen politicians. This is not about sanctifying anyone, but about applying the same standard to all victims.
If democratic memory aspires to be fair, it has a debt outstanding to these names. Of course, for some, counting the dead from the other side was always seen as a provocation.
Who was Joaquín Amigo? If official memory doesn't tell us, it's hard to know. Professor of Philosophy at the Lanjarón secondary school, driving force behind the magazine Gallo and close friend of Federico García Lorca, Amigo was kidnapped and thrown off Ronda's Puente Nuevo on 27 August 1936, nine days after the secretary of the Civil Governor of Granada ordered the poet's execution in Víznar. His body, like Lorca's, was never found.
The list of the forgotten doesn't stop there. Prosecutor Valentín Gamazo, who secured the conviction of Largo Caballero, was murdered afterwards along with all his children, as newspaper archives record. Meanwhile, the names of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Onésimo Redondo and Ramiro Ledesma are conspicuously absent from the lists of fallen politicians. This is not about sanctifying anyone, but about applying the same standard to all victims.
- 27 August 1936: murder of Joaquín Amigo in Ronda.
- Nine days earlier: execution of Federico García Lorca in Víznar.
- José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Onésimo Redondo and Ramiro Ledesma: missing from the official register.
If democratic memory aspires to be fair, it has a debt outstanding to these names. Of course, for some, counting the dead from the other side was always seen as a provocation.
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