Will Spain’s ‘disappeared’ find justice in Argentina? | Human Rights

It was a moonless night in the countryside outside Granada, Spain in 1936. A coded execution order came down: “Give him coffee, lots of coffee!” Antonio Benavides, part of an irregular volunteer firing squad, obliged. “I gave that fat-head a shot in the head,” he reportedly boasted later.  This is one account of the death of the famed Spanish poet and playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca. There are