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Garzón’s Guantánamo investigation reopened

January 14, 2012
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Garzón's successor at Spain's National Criminal Court, Judge Pablo Ruz, has sent the prosecutor a 19-page brief reactivating the investigation of human rights abuses and war crimes at the detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, El País reports. Given the lack of judicial action on the part of the US and British authorities, Ruz...
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Intellectuals, HR groups rally to support Garzón as he faces trials

January 14, 2012
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Intellectuals, HR groups rally to support Garzón as he faces trials

A group of prominent Spanish intellectuals including the poet Luis García Montero and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar  have rallied to the support of Baltasar Garzón, the crusading Spanish magistrate who last year received the first ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. So have Human Rights organizations worldwide. In the next two weeks, Garzón will...
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5th annual Jarama commemoration

January 8, 2012
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5th annual Jarama commemoration

This year’s 5th annual Jarama commemoration will take place during the weekend of Friday 17th to Sunday 19th February. As well as the 5th Jarama Memorial Walk, which will take place on Saturday 18th, there will be other events over the weekend. On Friday 17th, Hugh Purcell, whose work on Tom Wintringham, The Last...
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Chile backs off from Orwellian change

January 7, 2012
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The conservative government of Chile is “backing off a plan to remove the word “dictatorship” from school textbooks in reference to the government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet,” the Associated Press reports: President Sebastián Piñera’s new education minister, Harald Beyer, started a political uproar when he discussed the plan on Wednesday, which was publicized in...
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Argentine judge investigates Franco crimes

January 5, 2012
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IPS news reports:

This month, federal judge María Servini asked Spain for information on Spanish military officials, as part of a new investigation based on a lawsuit filed in April 2010 by human rights lawyers in Argentina in the name of relatives of victims of the...
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Flowers for a Lincoln buried in Spain

January 5, 2012
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Flowers for a Lincoln buried in Spain

Jeremy O. Simer sends a touching note: A couple of months ago, my friend Lonnie Nelson called from Seattle to ask me to help her arrange for someone in Gandesa (Tarragona) to lay flowers there in memory of her uncle Kenneth Frederick Nelson, who died in combat there in 1938, at the age of...
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Spanish TV covers Centelles exhibit

December 19, 2011
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Spanish TV covers Centelles exhibit

Televisión Española, in last night's news program, covered the exhibit of Spanish Civil War photographer Agustí Centelles that ALBA has co-sponsored, and which is still up at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. See the segment here.
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Margaret Palmer and Robert Raven

December 17, 2011
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Margaret Palmer and Robert Raven

In the 1930s, Margaret Palmer was an American expat living in Spain, and working as a local agent for the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art.  She also was in charge of the Spanish section of the Carnegie’s annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting from 1923-38. In the “Archives of American Art Journal” (26:2-3, 1986)*,...
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Edna Moore and Bart van der Schelling

December 16, 2011
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Edna Moore and Bart van der Schelling

Diana Anhalt (author of A Gathering of Fugitives, American Political Expatriates in Mexico, 1948-1965), and Yvonne Scholten, biographer of the Dutch miliciana Fanny Schoonheyt, are  interested in obtaining information on the Dutch Lincoln Brigade volunteer Bart van der Schelling.  He was admired as  a  baritone--he recorded Songs of the Spanish Civil War, a...
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Lorca’s Bow Tie

December 12, 2011
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Lorca’s Bow Tie

The parallelisms between the boom-and-bust of the 1920s/30s and our current economic and political meltdown are ubiquitous and uncanny (eg, here and here).  These unsettling coincidences form the knot of “Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie,” a wonderful production that will run at the Duke Theater on 42nd  Street until December 17, 2011. The great Spanish poet and...
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