Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Granada and author of Cruces de memoria y de olvido. Los monumentos a los caídos de la Guerra Civil Española (1936-2021) (Crítica), where he explains that, through monuments in public spaces, Franco manipulated memory. This August he has seen that his research, in which he denounces how Francoism appropriated a symbol of Christianity, has been used to initiate the process to declare the Creu dels Caiguts in Cáceres an Asset of Cultural Interest.