I was six years old when they came for my mother.
People from the town, Franco supporters.
They found her the next day by the side of the road.
They couldn't take her to the cemetery.
The townspeople wouldn't let them.
This stays here.
The day after tomorrow, the flowers will be gone.
Yes.
This is the gravesite.
This is the mass grave.
Look... there.
In those brambles...
They threw the clothes.
And left the women naked.
How unjust life is.
Not life.
We humans... we are unjust.
We call it the Spanish Civil War, but it began with a military coup.
That's Franco next to Hitler.
Franco was the dictator in Spain for almost 40 years.
Spaniards...
Franco...
has died.
Finally the murderers start rotting
While our people are growing
And the cry for amnesty grows and grows
Soon we'll be walking along the Gran V�a
Let them come, yes
The left fought for an amnesty to free political prisoners.
And thought they had won.
But the new law also granted amnesty for all the crimes of the dictatorship.
This came to be known as "The Pact of Forgetting."
It's simply a forgetting...
An amnesty for all, by all.
A forgetting for all, by all.
A law can establish a forgetting...
but that forgetting shall come down to all of society.
We must ensure that this forgetting becomes widespread
because it is the only way
we can shake each other's hands without rancor.
Those of us raised after Franco don't really know what happened.
Schools never taught us about it.
Our parents didn't tell us.
And we can't tell our children because we ourselves don't know.
Come, I'm going to take you somewhere.
To give you a little surprise.
Okay?
That's the entrance, and that's the house.
Antonio Gonz�lez Pacheco lives here.
Alias "Billy the Kid."
This is the person who tortured me on three occasions
when I was just over 20.
I have to live just meters away
from the person who tortured me.
That's him.
"Billy the Kid."
I think he enjoyed producing terror.
We have a lot of information about him.
For example, he ran the 33rd Madrid Marathon...
and the New York one, too.
This character is untouchable.
But I think we've found a way to bring him to justice.
- Good morning. - Don't tell me we got here last.
The barbarians from the north.
Hey, how's it going?
What's up?
We have 148 torturers here.
This is the famous one... "Billy the Kid."
We have selected seven who later held important positions.
The idea of indicting a cabinet member now is too much, right?
But this is the moment to go after "Billy the Kid."
That one is indisputable and no one will come to his defense.
A bit of gentle music, right?
Albinoni, the "Adagio."
When someone is murdered, it's clear.
The courts must prosecute the criminal and provide reparations to the victim.
Yet when we talk about genocide or crimes against humanity,
it's not so clear.
Rather, people start looking for arguments.
"It was a long time ago.
It's better to forget, we must turn the page," etc.
How can you serve justice for crimes committed by the state?
By involving the courts of the world.
That's the idea of universal jurisdiction.
Crimes against humanity can be prosecuted at any time,
by any court anywhere in the world.
The great example is what happened in Chile, with Pinochet.
The former dictator remains under guard
after an arrest warrant was issued by a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garz�n.
I was a lawyer on that case.
Even we couldn't believe that Pinochet had been arrested.
Justice! Justice has been served!
It sends the world a clear message.
These criminals cannot go unpunished.
Their crimes have no statute of limitations.
There are no borders to their prosecution.
The prosecution of Judge Garz�n is used to state
that crimes committed under Franco cannot be investigated at all.
And so we decided to file a lawsuit in Argentina.
We have no doubt it will grow.
Since it was announced publicly four days ago,
we've received numerous calls and emails
from relatives of victims of the Franco regime.
We will find you wherever you may go!
Are you ready to give your testimony?
Yes...
If you could testify before a judge, what would you say?
I'm a plaintiff
because I'm reclaiming my right to justice.
I'm in the lawsuit for my father's death.
My father is buried in Baeza with everyone executed there,
nine hundred or so.
We're in the lawsuit
for the execution by garotte of my brother Salvador, who was 25.
My father was one of the slaves of the Franco regime.
I have relatives who have spent almost 20 years in prison.
The Fascists took him out to a road 30 kilometers away
and executed him.
My grandfather...
was beaten to death...
because he wouldn't say where his sons were.
The thing is, all this has been covered up until now.
And then,
a path emerges.
A little door.
Hey, we can resort to universal jurisdiction.
Spain's Amnesty Law has prevented
Spanish judges from investigating.
But crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations.
No amnesty can cover them up or prevent their investigation.
You don't understand what it's like to talk to someone who's 80 and tells you,
"I need to talk to the judge because I may die."
There are many people asking to testify by videoconference.
We believe we have satisfied all procedural requirements
to move forward with these measures.
There's a lot to read.
And what we need are witnesses, right?
We need witnesses.
In this case, there are several protagonists.
Time is one of them.
LONG LIVE FRANCO
Those who don't want this to go to trial
are relying on time to take the victims away.
GENERALISSIMO FRANCO SQUARE
- Hello. - Hello.
How are you?
Hello, honey.
Very good, and you?
Thank you very much.
When they came for my mother,
they put her in the school, which was the jail for women.
There...
they shaved their heads.
She hadn't done anything.
They were harvesters. They said she was a "red."
They walked her through the village with fifes and drums
so everyone would come out to see.
The village kids all followed behind...
but they didn't let me get near her.
That night they killed 27 men and three women.
Luc�a, Mar�a, and my mother, Faustina L�pez Gonz�lez.
My father told me,
"Try to retrieve the remains one day and bring them to me."
But I've always been alone.
My own children fight among themselves.
Some want to, some don't.
I'm not asking for revenge.
- I ask for the remains... - The right to bury her.
...her remains.
To bury her with her husband.
Nothing more. That's all I ask for.
We are now presenting our case in Argentina.
You'll be part of that case.
How am I going to go to Argentina... in my condition?
No, you don't have to go.
What's important is that they say,
"In Spain, at that time, there were crimes against humanity."
And when that is said, the country will have the obligation
to give you the remains.
When I would have died...
Not far from Mar�a's
stands one of the few monuments to Franco's victims.
A few hours after its unveiling,
after decades of democracy,
someone shot the statues.
The sculptor deemed that the bullet holes had completed his work.
The spirit of harmony, born in the Spanish transition...
...is not made by stirring up tombs and bones or butting heads with each other.
It's made by working hard every day for the future of the country.
Does it make sense that in 2016,
thousands of Spaniards still don't know where their grandparents are buried?
I'm not sure what you're saying is true,
or that the government can do anything to fix it.
Well, it is true, Mr. Rajoy.
Sure, of course, many people don't know.
But it makes more sense to avoid repeating those things in the future
than to mull continually over the past.
Good evening.
These are times to strengthen a Spain of open arms,
where no one stirs up old grudges or opens closed wounds.
Do you know what the Pact of Forgetting is?
No.
Do you know what the Amnesty Law is?
No.
We don't study those things.
The Amnesty Law...
It rings a bell, but...
No.
We must forget the whole past because it was 40 years ago.
Because some lost relatives in the war on the Republican side,
and others lost people on Franco's side.
Forget everything and... move on.
We won't get anywhere with that.
This... is the toilet. It used to be there.
This has to do with my obsession with putting things in their place.
When I was here, I must have been... 24.
I was charged with illicit association and illegal propaganda.
The story of my opposition to the Franco dictatorship begins in 1968...
with the founding of a democratic student union.
There is no freedom of the press, no right of assembly.
A member of this union, Enrique Ruano, is murdered by the police.
They put two bullets in his head
and throw him out of a window, calling it a suicide.
This makes a deep impression.
That's when I decided I had no choice but to devote my life
to ending that dictatorship.
For my whole generation, the dictatorship meant...
depriving us of freedom...
...of rights, of everything.
We thought there was another way to live,
more fulfilling, where we could be happier.
I was ready to leave when the police knocked.
"Billy the Kid" stuffed a cloth in my mouth.
And from then on, the blows...
We arrived at the General Security Headquarters,
what we called the "DGS."
Nobody knew you were there.
You disappeared.
In that building...
People were tortured!
In that building...
People were assassinated!
Forty days of torture...
Something breaks inside you, and will never be the same.
Thousands of people had their entire lives broken.
Who they were, and what they could become.
We have lost everything.
And we will have to fight again to recover what we lost,
and much more.
And I, even if it's the last thing I do,
I'll be there speaking out against this.
This is a historic moment
because the plaintiffs are going to testify before the judge
that is, in a court of law, for the first time.
I don't think we've ever taken such an important step, ever.
Good luck, honey...
- Ready? - Yes.
Hold on.
- There's an hour delay. - Oh, no!
We're so on edge that every little thing makes us...
Makes us think...
Yes, tell me...
Yes...
Goodbye.
It seems that the ambassador
- called the judge... - You're kidding.
...saying that if videoconferences take place,
it would mean breaking relations with Spain.
So the videoconferences have been canceled.
What you should write is,
"Videoconferences canceled due to pressure from the Spanish government."
It's an attempt to paralyze this lawsuit
that the government feels is growing by the minute
and is becoming more unstoppable...
There are very powerful interests
that want to prevent all this from being investigated.
Onwards, squadrons, to victory
That a new day dawns in Spain!
Hail Spain!
Hail Spain! Hail Spain!
MAKE SPAIN GREAT AGAIN
In my opinion, the most important thing to remember about Franco
is that he was never wrong.
Franco saved Christian Western civilization
from communist tyranny.
The forgetting started long before the amnesty.
The world chose to forget,
embracing Franco in its fight against communism.
Regarding the succession to the Head of State,
it's all taken care of, with no loose ends...
with the designation of Prince Juan Carlos of Borb�n as my heir.
I receive from His Excellency, the Head of State Generalissimo Franco
the political legitimacy that arose on July 18, 1936.
After Franco's death, many of his police, judges and politicians
simply continued on.
I think the "forgetting"
was internal, among the politicians themselves.
They didn't want the Spanish people to know that all these politicians
had previously been defenders of Franco's regime.
So they were interested in forgetting
because talking about Franco meant talking about their past.
The results of the vote are as follows,
296 in favor,
two opposed.
Gentlemen, the Amnesty Law is approved.
I wrote to all the bigwigs, as I call them.
To the King,
his son,
the president,
the mayor here.
"Hello, Honorable Judge of the Supreme Court in Madrid.
After they killed his wife,
the only answer my father got was,
'You'll take her to the cemetery when pigs fly.
So don't cause problems,
or we might do to you what we did to her.'
Best regards from this woman
who keeps waiting
for pigs to fly.
Mar�a Mart�n."
I'm lost, is it up here?
Yes, this way.
Okay, much better.
This is the town where my grandmother's whole story took place.
I'm Mar�a �ngeles Mart�n,
daughter of Mar�a Mart�n,
granddaughter of Faustina L�pez, my grandmother,
murdered in Pedro Bernardo.
Kids threw stones at us on the street.
Walking down the street, you'd be looking out for an escape route.
Because when I'd run into someone...
they'd do this with the finger.
"We shouldn't have left even the offspring."
Whenever she saw the Civil Guard approaching,
my mother would pee on herself.
For her, it's not like they had changed with the democracy.
Because it was the same institution, the same people, the same mayor.
Sometimes I'm not so in favor of changing street names.
Because it's history, good or bad, it's history.
Do you find streets in Germany named after Hitler's guys?
It was a bad thing, something that shouldn't happen again.
The culture and history of a country are based on the good and the bad, right?
And we must also remember the bad, right?
- But so it doesn't happen again. - So it doesn't happen again.
- But not to memorialize it. - No.
- I can't handle it. - But why?
I think that it should have been done ages ago.
I live on General Yag�e Street.
He's one of the generals who revolted with Franco.
He's known as "The Butcher of Badajoz"
because he took over 4,000 prisoners
and executed them all in the city's bullfighting ring.
Every day I wake up on a street
dedicated to this war criminal.
THE LEADER SQUARE
FRANCO'S COAT OF ARMS
GENERAL VARELA STREET
GENERAL MOSCARD� STREET
CAPTAIN HAYA STREET
HAIL SPAIN SQUARE
FRANCO'S VICTORY ARCH
I have the feeling that we're stuck.
We have to bring the lawsuit back to life again.
We filed the lawsuit three years ago.
We can't allow this to stretch out any longer.
What's critical in a lawsuit like this is the social movement.
So we have to be creative and see how, by mobilizing people,
we can push things forward.
There's not a town in Spain
without victims of the Franco regime, right?
This is not about looking at the past.
We're fighting for the future.
We're joining as Lora del R�o's Historic Memory Association.
We're joining this project,
with great enthusiasm.
We want to bring this to little towns.
To gather signatures and also statements of support from town halls.
One town hall at a time.
If the judge decides to issue
international arrest warrants for these people,
our possibilities open up completely.
All this is going to snowball.
My name is Mar�a Mercedes Bueno.
I was born in La L�nea,
a town in the province of C�diz, near Gibraltar.
I was 18 and pregnant.
At that time,
to be a single mother was a terrible stigma.
My gynecologist hospitalized me.
It was December 24, Christmas Eve.
He said, "I'll put you to sleep so you don't panic."
The next day,
they told me the baby was dead
and that the hospital would take care of everything.
Twenty-eight years later... I'm surfing the web,
and I start seeing tons of cases of stolen babies
at the Municipal Hospital of La L�nea,
with that same doctor.
And I realized that thousands of babies had been stolen all over Spain.
All the cases seem to have a common denominator.
The children are not buried in the cemetery...
...of the three coffins, two were empty.
They only had bandages and sawdust.
We'd like to see the supposed records of my daughter's burial
from December 24th, 1981.
There's nothing here under that name.
- Nothing? - Nothing.
I discovered that this horror began in the 1940s under Franco.
There had always been rumors.
This is Dr. Vallejo N�gera.
He studied Nazi Germany's eugenics
and became the head of military psychiatry under Franco.
EUGENICS OF SPANISHNESS AND REGENERATION OF THE RACE
He held that leftists carried a "red gene..."
and proposed to purge that gene
by separating the children of the vanquished from their parents.
Thousands of children were given to families loyal to the regime.
DOCTOR VALLEJO-N�GERA BOULEVARD
With time, many believe the practice evolved.
But the justification switched from political to moral.
The new targets were single women
and poor families with "too many" children.
In Argentina, they estimate 500 children were taken by the military dictatorship.
In Spain, we count the stolen children by the tens or hundreds of thousands.
I get that this lawsuit focuses on crimes committed under Franco,
but we belong there, too.
Because when a system is in place for 40 years,
the machinery can't just be stopped in '75.
These practices continued, they went on and on.
We want our children, alive or dead.
That's all we want.
It's not much. It's so little.
It's a pittance that we're asking for.
There are such terrible people...
Look.
Judge Servini orders the detention of four torturers.
It's really historic!
An Argentine judge investigating Franco-era crimes
has ordered Spain and Interpol to detain four members of the security forces
to interrogate them about alleged crimes of torture.
Who did they indict?
"Billy"?
Great!
Oh, my God! Yes!
Now is when the fight begins.
We've made a quantum leap, haven't we?
Come on, let's toast!
Where are we?
In The New York Times.
Let me see!
Try to move this way, so we can see the door better.
My name is Ascensi�n Mendieta Ibarra,
and I am in the lawsuit to see if we can get my father out.
I had lost hope.
But I have the dream...
That now I'll be able to see him.
It's a pleasure to have you here with me.
If anyone wants to say something, I'll listen.
My name is Paqui Maqueda.
I bring you today the names of 22,000 men and women
still disappeared in the Andalusian region.
I also bring you our immense gratitude
and our hope.
My father died on November 16th, 1939.
He died and left seven small children.
We want to see if justice could be served
so we can get him out of a mass grave.
You must understand that investigating crimes in other countries is difficult.
If I don't do more, it's because we face a number of obstacles.
This is the most important case in my court.
I'll do what I have to do.
- A rainbow. - A rainbow.
This journey is full of signs, I'm convinced.
Look, such a beautiful rainbow...
Starting in the 1980s, as dictatorships fell across Latin America,
many countries used Spain's Pact of Forgetting as a model.
But over time, citizens called for truth and justice,
and one by one, these countries overturned their amnesty laws.
Former rulers, police and judges have been put on trial.
Today, all over the world,
truth commissions and special tribunals work to uncover the past.
Old prisons and death camps have become museums
where people are urged to remember.
All the decisions about what happened here,
who to kidnap,
how the operations...
Seeing a school group here brings tears to our eyes.
When will we see students in the General Security Headquarters saying,
"Look, Chato was tortured here"?
The extradition process continues
for Antonio Gonz�lez Pacheco, alias "Billy the Kid"
and former Civil Guard Jes�s Mu�ecas Aguilar.
Extradite the torturers!
It's the first time the voice of the victims
will be heard before a court,
and it will be 10,000 km away from our country.
Come on, go for it!
Ma'am, come in. Have a seat, please.
May I...
...my family was exiled, like over half a million Spaniards...
...my grandfather was assigned to Camposancos concentration camp...
...I was in many of Franco's prisons until 1977...
...my father was disappeared. They threw him into a well...
...the theft of my twin brother, Francisco...
...our family house was confiscated...
...we were victims of the prevention centers...
...the killing of workers in Vitoria...
...the sentences against us were never annulled.
We're still considered criminals...
...to be able to give my mother a tiny margin of justice...
...so that it isn't repeated.
What a show!
Murderers!
Have you accepted the extradition?
"I keep your passports," said Judge Pablo Ruz,
who ordered them to appear weekly in court
and barred them from leaving the country...
The next step in this process will be the extradition hearing itself.
How are you?
Very well...
It's okay...
Today, for the first time in 77 years,
two of Franco's torturers
had to respond to a judge's questions
about the crimes they committed.
It's a first step.
In no time, we'll see the first criminal in jail.
Don't worry, we'll get those bones.
Do you want a coffee?
Yes.
Poor thing, she always says,
"When they shot him... did he really die?
How did he fall? On his side? Face down?"
I remember well, she spent years and years
yearning for her father, poor woman.
What happened?
I don't know...
Hi, there.
I'm here to give you some news.
How are you?
Judge Mar�a Servini has ordered Spain to exhume your father.
- To get him out? - Yes.
Dear God, what joy!
Now if I die, I will take my father's bones with me.
I'm so happy for you...
So they'll get him out?
She's ordered the Spanish judiciary to do what they have to do.
- Thank you so much, son. - You're welcome.
So much time...
My sister died wanting to get him out, but we never could.
Your trip really made a difference.
Oh, my goodness...
Oh, God, I'm so happy.
Now I can die happily.
Because now I know I'll see him,
even in a bone, or an ash, or whatever it is.
In this section of the cemetery,
each tombstone covers a mass grave.
More than 200 people are thought to lie here,
including Ascensi�n's father.
DIED DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM
The bullet holes can still be seen on the wall.
For 40 years, this part of the cemetery was closed off.
Family members would throw flowers over the wall
and cry against it.
Right at the entrance of the same cemetery,
a monument honors the many Franco supporters
who were killed during the war.
Franco is buried in the biggest monument of all.
The Valley of the Fallen.
Spain is full of mass graves.
By the side of roads.
In cemeteries.
In the middle of fields.
In the year 2000, historic memory organizations started to form,
funded by the victims themselves.
Since then,
without a single judicial order,
8,000 men and women have been exhumed.
But over 100,000 are still waiting.
We are here for the DNA.
For the DM.
- D-N-A. - DMA.
- N, N. - M, N.
The DNA.
- The DNA. - DNA.
Yes, and why are they taking yours?
To see if I'm my father's daughter.
That's right.
That your father is your father, and you're his daughter.
Because there are a lot of other people buried with him.
Full name?
Iluminada Ascensi�n Mendieta Ibarra.
Please open your mouth.
My mouth?
I'll scrape the inside of your cheek.
- Should I take out my dentures? - No, it's not necessary.
That's it.
Wow. Thank you.
- Your delivery was normal, right? - Normal.
A perfect birth.
The doctor comes in,
takes my baby, turns his back on me and walks out.
They don't explain anything.
They don't put a wristband on me or my baby.
- They took the baby. - They took my baby.
- And did you see him again? - No. Never again.
He says... "Your baby is dead."
- Did they give you a medical report? - No, there's nothing.
My case is very similar to yours.
The modus operandi...
They're like photocopies...
God, how can we live with this truth hidden in our hearts?
Our cases are being closed. They're being shelved.
I'd like to be able to stand in front of a judge...
Yes, you can.
I did, outside Spain, through the Argentine lawsuit.
We have lawyers who work for free.
The lawsuit may or may not succeed.
But at least I have a door open.
...his brother was killed by the fascists an obvious case of forced disappearance
In the lawsuit, we've gathered
the names of doctors, midwives and nuns who abducted children.
Names of companies that profited from slave labor.
We can't wait any longer to present indictments,
powerful ones.
We have names of ministers... like Mart�n Villa,
who was a cabinet minister during the dictatorship
and then Deputy Prime Minister in the democracy.
The Argentine judge has come to Spain.
She petitioned the Spanish government, who sent it to local courts in Spain
where she took testimony.
This measure was unprecedented.
Let me give you a kiss.
And my gratitude... for everything you're doing.
I've listened to 167 testimonies.
And we are moved by this.
The emotion touches us, but...
we must stay cool and objective.
The darkest chapter in our history is being examined by the UN.
This includes recommendations
to annul the effects of the 1977 Amnesty Law.
Because the victims, rightly, do not forget.
EXTRADITE THE TORTURERS
Tomorrow, "Billy the Kid" will have to appear in National Court
for his extradition hearing.
He has been summoned for crimes of torture of 13 people from 1968 to '75.
...the dictator...
...not a single one...
...justice...
I've never told Justa any of this.
It's almost... shameful.
They took my wife there, she was three months pregnant,
and to force her to say, "Do it for me and for the baby,"
they punched her in the belly.
Thirteen hours straight.
They ended up tearing off my skin in strips.
As "Billy the Kid" and his henchmen told me,
"Don't get your hopes up.
Nothing will happen to us.
What's more, we will be the police of the future."
I felt like a rag doll,
tossed from left to right, forwards and backwards.
The only thing that kept me standing were the blows my body received,
as if they were competing in how to beat me so I wouldn't fall.
I was trembling so much, in such pain and panic,
that I couldn't tell if my feet ever touched the ground.
They handcuffed me behind my back.
Holding my hair, they beat my head
against the edge of a table.
What scared me most was that I might "sing."
The way to resist was to imagine a scene.
There was the same table, the same killers beating me,
but around us were my friends, my father...
The people I loved most.
And I couldn't let them down.
That was the way to endure it.
But they slowly faded when you realized you were naked,
that they were beating your buttocks, the soles of your feet,
your genitals.
I remember I thought, "You'll never have sex again."
I was 22... and had just had my first experience.
I wasn't even a person, not even an animal.
I was just a thing.
Just there at 22, really scared and determined to endure,
endure out of rage.
I tell you in earnest...
not even for my political convictions.
But out of rage.
Because I was a human being.
For many years, we only wanted to erase from our heads
all that time of bitterness...
and repression. I don't know...
Perhaps all of us...
perhaps we have all collaborated in that silence.
But that's something you realize later.
People don't forget so easily.
Even if they want to, it's not easy.
Extradite the torturers!
Antonio Gonz�lez Pacheco,
do you consent to your image being recorded by the media?
I do not consent.
The cameras will be allowed to record briefly from behind,
and we'll allow audio recording.
Do you know the acts you are indicted for?
Yes.
Do you consent to be turned in to be tried in Argentina?
Absolutely not.
With your permission, Your Honor.
The Amnesty Law would eliminate
any hypothetical responsibility that might arise.
Therefore, we request the complete rejection
of the extradition order for Mr. Antonio Gonz�lez Pacheco.
Show your face, coward!
Murderer!
No Spanish TV channel has ever recorded his face... until now.
It's Juan Antonio Gonz�lez Pacheco, also known as "Billy the Kid."
Hello, Mr. Pacheco, I have a few questions for you.
- Leave me alone. - Listen, please.
Do you know the Argentine judiciary has requested your extradition?
Leave me alone!
Have you ever considered apologizing after 40 years?
Leave me alone.
One thing that makes me particularly angry
is when people say, "No, you're just motivated by revenge."
You can only think I'm looking for revenge
if you think that looking for justice is looking for revenge.
Forgiveness is an individual matter.
A state cannot forgive crimes.
Forgetting doesn't lead to forgiveness...
It generates more hatred.
No one has ever asked us for forgiveness.
People don't ask, they demand that you forgive.
You can't forgive.
You can forget, but you can't forgive.
Of course I forgive you.
You, the physical person who did something horrible
because you were serving a regime that tortured me.
But I demand justice.
Because I was condemned illegally and you went scot-free.
The National Court won't extradite to Argentina
the ex-policeman known as "Billy the Kid."
The judges hold that the alleged crimes
have passed the statute of limitations and are not crimes against humanity.
Repeal the Amnesty Law!
Universal justice from Latin America!
Crimes against humanity never, ever have a statute of limitations.
We, and hundreds of thousands of victims,
have been denied the right to justice.
Thank you.
She couldn't...
Life got the better of her.
She left without achieving... everything she fought for.
She wanted to be there with her mother's remains by her side.
Big news, people.
Judge Servini has ordered the detention,
for the... investigating inquiry, of 20 people.
One of them is Mart�n Villa, and also Utrera Molina.
That's so great!
Mart�n Villa!
That's great!
- We have to move it... - That means all of them.
Did you hear? I just received the judge's ruling.
I'll send it over.
I'm more and more convinced that justice will be served.
We think that this clamor against impunity will grow...
Judge Servini has ordered the detention
of 20 cabinet ministers, one doctor accused of stealing babies,
judges, lawyers and a former Deputy Prime Minister, Mart�n Villa.
I want to testify before the judge.
The best solution is for the judge to come to Spain
to interrogate those she has indicted.
The Spanish judiciary must allow me to take their statements.
If they authorize me, I'll come.
The doctor who treated me is now charged, thanks to the Argentine lawsuit.
It's a step closer to knowing the truth.
We're asking for justice and truth.
It's all we have left.
My goodness, you're famous!
I'm so overwhelmed.
- Oh, my goodness. - Hold on tight.
I'm really overwhelmed.
Do you wish that you hadn't needed to travel 10,000 km
to make this happen?
But I did, and I was 88.
I would do it again if I had to.
These are all mass graves.
This is a mass grave, this is another mass grave...
Separate mass graves, one next to the other.
Is my whole team here?
We'll make a perimeter, as always.
Those who are working in the grave, you know who you are.
Object one...
Projectile.
The first body
shows clear evidence of having been murdered.
From here on, it's going to be slow work.
So, it'll take a few days...
We'll need several days.
Have you ever seen a grave this deep before?
In a cemetery, never.
They had clearly planned how many people they wanted to put inside.
Opening a grave with 22 people
means that many other families can recover those remains.
We are Tom�s Vicente Lorente's relatives,
and we've come to claim him, of course.
I have my father there, number 13.
My uncle was 28, a kid.
There, there's a 25-year-old shepherd.
There's no explanation.
Because if people fight each other in a war,
that's just how it is.
But to be executed later just because you think differently, it's outrageous.
Honorable...
...of the Supreme... Court...
in Madrid.
It was hard for me to get involved.
It's easier to get on with your life and not get into this mess.
ARGENTINIAN LAWSUIT
...and with all the pain of my heart...
...regards from...
...from this woman...
...who is still waiting...
...for pigs...
...to fly.
EMBASSY OF ARGENTINA IN SPAIN
My mother never would have imagined that I...
that I'd get so involved.
She'd be very proud.
I believe if the Spanish judges heard what I've heard,
they would open more cases here.
That's what happened in Chile, with Pinochet.
They refused to investigate until it reached a certain point,
that with all the evidence that had been gathered,
they sentenced him.
I believe that in the long run...
you'll be successful in making them investigate here.
Many universal jurisdiction cases never make it to trial,
but they can spark changes within the country being investigated.
Despite resistance,
several regional governments have passed laws to acknowledge victims,
exhume mass graves, and investigate the stolen children.
Perhaps we are finally ready to remember.
The debate about war, or violence during a dictatorship
should never be confined to the private sphere.
It must take place within democratic institutions.
That's why today is a big day of democratic maturity.
The streets we'll rename will be,
"Hail Spain" Square, Franco's motto par excellence.
Square of "The Leader."
Avenue of the Arc of Victory.
General Yag�e Street.
That's mine, that's mine.
Now we vote on the original text.
Citizens Party?
In favor.
Okay.
Socialist Party?
In favor.
Popular Party?
Against.
Okay. Madrid Now Platform?
In favor.
The proposal is approved, thank you everyone.
- Are you okay? - I'm okay.
Slowly.
Calmly.
Let's go closer.
- The time has come. - The time has come.
Look, Mom.
Where it says 19...
Poor thing, my dear father.
A whole life underground, dear father.
Mom, you wanted to see him. You saw him now.
It's okay.
Yes, I wanted to. I'm okay.
TIMOTEO MENDIETA ALCAL� NOVEMBER 15 1939
Lost peace
Lost cause
Lost dreams
Lost homeland
Lost to everyone
Lost to Spain
In no man's land
In fields of rage
Here they come
Spain's children
Where one song dies out
Mine rises up
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