“I am very proud of my grandmother, of who she was and what she did, even though she must have suffered a lot, and at the same time I am angry about all the silence, because she was never spoken of in my family. I understand they must have done it to protect us and out of fear, but now I want to do everything possible so that people know who Carmen was,” says Àngel González, who contacted ARA after reading the report on Federico García Lorca published in the August 16th edition.

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has submitted an official written request to the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, demanding the declassification of documents regarding the assassination of the poet Federico García Lorca that the State keeps hidden, on the 90th anniversary of the crime.

In Spain, the past is not the past, but a political weapon of daily use. Unlike in Catalonia, where the anti-Francoist consensus of all Catalanist forces allows for a greater consensus, Spain has not resolved its historical memory. And the symbol that best represents this failure is the figure of the Granada-born poet Federico García Lorca, murdered 90 years ago, and whose remains have not yet been found. This is undoubtedly an uncomfortable anniversary for the Spanish right, as it breaks the narrative that one must look forward and opt for "concord". What "concord" is possible when there are thousands and thousands of families who do not know where their loved ones are, including a pivotal figure in Spanish and even world literature, studied in all universities worldwide?

We commemorate the 90th anniversary of the assassination of Federico García Lorca with a special dossier on all the questions surrounding the poet's death.