182 Spanish grave opened on order of Argentine judge unearths painful past
The exhumed skeleton of trade unionist Timoteo, who was shot in 1939 in the months after the Spanish Civil War, revives bitter memories of the Franco era. A 90-year-old Spanish woman wrapped in a fur coat and woollen scarf stood over a deep open grave and murmured “my father” to the unearthed skeleton lying at the bottom. Ascension Mendieta’s trade unionist father Timoteo was shot in 1939 in the months […]