Críticas Magazine

Federico Garcia Lorca is creating drama again. Spain's greatest poet and playwright is at the center of a dispute over whether victims of Franco's mass graves should be given dignified burials. Garcia Lorca's family believes Franco's troops executed the writer during the Spanish Civil War and then buried his body, along with three other men, in a shallow grave near Granada, in the Viznar ravine. They estimate that close to 3,000 other victims are burrired.Two of the other families want to exhume their relatives' remains, but Garcia Lorca's family, deep down, doesn't want to move his body. Though in the last week they seem to be more open to the idea.

Garcia Lorca: Will the writer's body be exhumed?

The other relatives have asked Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon(who once came close to extraditing Chile's Pinochet)  to order the opening of the grave. But those opposed believe removing the four most famous victims would be a mistake since it would detract from the historical tragedy.A niece of Garcia Lorca's thinks the bodies should be left where they are and that a plaque should be erected at the site identifying the victims. Garcia Lorca's family doesn't want to create a grave that's separte from the rest. They don't want him singled out from all of Franco's victims. The press is saying it will take months for a decision to be made. Pobre Federico. A scene as crazy as one from his masterpiece, Blood Wedding. Here's a link for more on this morbid story.