In Orihuela, your city and mine. Who would have thought so. The spectacle of your City Council making contortions to accommodate the death of Miguel Hernández at the margins offered by certain supposed electoral calculations was painful. And the Valencian Generalitat is not left out. Although he tried to distance himself, he also did not honor the memory of the poet. You cannot seek compensation if you hide the fact that he was persecuted for defending the Second Republic and condemned by military tribunals without any legal rigor.
In Valencia, as in other places where fascist logic prevailed, an ignominious Law of Concord was chosen, in which the Franco dictatorship is not condemned and the plan of the tombs is replaced by a vague allusion to the “disappeared” people. “. Euphemistic expressions intended to erase the victims, erase their traces and depersonalize them. A framework which silences consciences and which can only reassure the authors.
