Discovered New Findings about the crimes of old houses

With the title Unpublished report on Casas Viejas. Testimony of an Assault Guard about the events that changed the history of Spain, the publisher Facediciones recently published a manuscript that eyewitness left to posterity, never thinking I would see the light.

The author (Jose Luengo Camacho, 1906 -1984) narrates with painstaking thoroughness, and written at first hand only some days after the murders, he saw or heard at the village of Cadiz, "he writes, were there until the end of making , which was at four and five in the morning you felt the last shots "because Luengo wasted no opportunity to include up to what could be considered irrelevant detail then and today, for lack of similar evidence, is a mainstay for those historians strive to reconstruct the events. In this sense, the guard then written Assault contains hundreds of accurate data that will enrich the extensive bibliography on Casas Viejas, based mainly on oral tradition, so in the sometimes elusive memory, when not in Interested testify in the trial against those responsible. Considering that it was written to serve as evidence, has the freshness and objectivity of those who write freely, unfettered misleading.

Casas Viejas (Benalup today, Cádiz), a paradigm of what later became Franco's repression, is a place frequented by historians concerned with interpreting the eve of the Civil War. The town paid anticipate a future that may never arrive, which exemplify the anarchist utopia, the execution of a possibility or plan events and forgetting about people who lived, perhaps, wrong time and place. It has international resonance as an example of libertarian initiative. The Holocaust should serve as a check on other localities devise such actions, especially against a republic incapable of reforming the landscape of the property and settling the landless.

In this attempt to find truth is to align the personal testimony, hitherto unpublished, transcribed this book, complete with notes historian Juan José Antequera, with the triple value of the narrator, an eyewitness of the events, belonged as a professional (1 of the Body Guard Security and Assault) to the side that rushed to quell the uprising, to which his writing was due to the desire to leave a written testimony, which requires, and his impeccable military background and vital. Titled "Beyond a road trip," exudes openness and provides data that enrich circulating versions so far. Excel presence, almost from the outset and, of course, during the burning of the house and-Seisdedos and more doubtfully the shootings that followed, a delegate of the civil governor of Cadiz, the government gives an idea of ​​the nation was aware of what was happening and, if the matter got out of hand, the degree of responsibility should start with the political authorities, who managed at first to persuade the public and judges that the Captain Rojas- most senior military commander-was to be moved there alone in the blame, being shown that their savagery was in collusion or complicity with the provincial and national political authority.