A recent article in the New York Times takes another look at Spain's silence regarding its painful past. With the new generations being the first to grow up completely independent of the bloody war that tore families and neighbors apart and the subsequent 4-decade dictatorship, they are also the first to openly speak about and examine the past, while their parents and grandparents choose to look straight forward. A new law has been put in place to rid the country of
symbols and monuments of Generalismo Francisco Franco and his regime, but is this really the answer? Are they hiding from the past or  revisiting it? Or is it both?

Read the article here

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