Arrested, tortured, and exiled: remembering Francoist repression 50 years later

<p dir="ltr"><span>“The best way of preventing what happened under <strong>Franco</strong> from happening again is to know the past,” Carles Vallejo contends. As the president of the Barcelona-based <strong>Association of Former Political Prisoners of Francoism</strong>, Vallejo is well placed to understand the weight of that statement.  </span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Vallejo was only in his mid-twenties and had already been living in exile for a few years when Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died an old man in his bed on November 20, 1975. </span></p> / ACN

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First published: November 21, 2020 06:33 PM