Forty minutes from Puerta del Sol, under a 150-meter cross, there are 33,849 bodies, more than 13,000 marked as “unknown,” that no one can look at. They are not missing, but walled up, mixed up, nameless, in sealed crypts so that they will never be opened again. The State knows it, we know it, but we cannot see them. This impossibility is not an administrative oversight inherited from Franco’s regime but, exactly, what Franco’s regime wanted.
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