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Critics of the new Law on Historic Memory, designed to recognise the thousands of republican victims of the Civil War and of Franco's long dictatorship, say that it is threatening to disinter old enmities. The old ideological divisions of the Civil War have been uncovered by the law that was intended to assert formally for the ...
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Theme 4: The Two Spains: 1936 onwards Spain – coming to terms with the past?

Translation Traduce al español: Critics of the new Law on Historic Memory, designed to recognise the thousands of republican victims of the Civil War and of Franco’s long dictatorship, say that it is threatening to disinter old enmities. The old ideological divisions of the Civil War have been uncovered by the law that was intended to assert formally for the first time the moral rights of republican victims of Franco. While some argue that the law is a cynical political attempt to impose a new version of Spain’s painful history that glosses over part of its past, others believe that the attempt to deal with the legacy of the war and the dictatorship merely represents Spain’s coming of age as a democracy strong enough to confront its violent past.

Adaptado de www.theguardian.com › World › Spain

Los críticos de la nueva Ley de Memoria Histórica, redactada para reconocer a los miles de víctimas republicanas de la Guerra Civil y de la larga dictadura de Franco, afirman que amenaza con desenterrar enemistades antiguas. Las viejas divisiones ideológicas de la Guerra Civil se han reactivado por la ley cuyo propósito fue declarar formalmente por primera vez los derechos morales de las víctimas republicanas de Franco. Mientras unos argumentan que la ley es una cínica tentativa política de imponer una nueva versión de la historia dolorosa de España que encubre una parte de su pasado, otros creen que la tentativa de superar la herencia de la guerra y la dictadura meramente representa la madurez de España como una democracia lo bastante fuerte como para afrontar su pasado violento. Traducción propuesta