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Shoot the Messenger? (Paperback, New)
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Shoot the Messenger? (Paperback, New)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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Judge Baltasar Garzon achieved international prestige in 1998 when
he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina
against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of
the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet. But when he transferred
his attention to his Spanish homeland he was put on trial for
opening an investigation into crimes committed by Francoists. As
result he now (February 2012) finds himself on the point of being
expelled from the judiciary. ... The Garzon case is neither so
absurd nor so difficult to understand if the record of the Spanish
judiciary is examined through the prism of a series of
representative cases since the transition to democracy. Key is the
way the judiciary has dealt with those who have investigated cases
of people murdered by the military rebels from July 1936 onwards.
Shoot the Messenger? relates thirteen judicial cases that took
place between 1981 and 2012. They range from the banning of the
documentary film Rocio by Fernando Ruiz Vergara, because it named
the person responsible for one of the massacres in southwest Spain,
to the recent trial of Judge Garzon. The judicial outcome in each
case reflected the prejudices and ideology of the judge in charge.
... The Francoist repression still constitutes a dead weight in
Spanish politics as heavy as the gravestone that covers the remains
of the dictator in the Valle de los Caidos. The nature of the
transition from autocracy to democracy has made it difficult to
overcome a black past that not even the post-Franco democratic
governments -- Rodriguez Zapatero's "memory" policy included --
have dared confront. The potential defrocking of Judge Garzon puts
the Spanish polity/judiciary back in the realm of Franco's
end-of-year message on December 30, 1969, with what became the
nautical catch-phrase of his twilight years, "all is lashed down
and well lashed down" (todo ha quedado atado, y bien atado).
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