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Shoot the Messenger?
Francisco Espinosa-Maestre
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Description for Shoot the Messenger?
Paperback. "First published in Spanish, titled Callar al mensajero: La represion franquista, entre la libertad de informacion y el derecho al honor (Barcelona: Ediciones Peninsula, 2009); first published in English, 2013, with one additional chapter, "The Spanish justice system, Baltasar Garzon and the crimes of Francoism" -- Title page verso. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Judge Baltasar Garzon achieved international prestige in 1998 when he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet. But when he transferred his attention to his Spanish homeland he was put on trial for opening an investigation into crimes committed by Francoists. As result he now (February 2012) finds himself on the point of being expelled from the judiciary. The Garzon case is neither so absurd nor so difficult to understand if the record of the Spanish judiciary is examined through the prism of a ... Read more
Judge Baltasar Garzon achieved international prestige in 1998 when he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet. But when he transferred his attention to his Spanish homeland he was put on trial for opening an investigation into crimes committed by Francoists. As result he now (February 2012) finds himself on the point of being expelled from the judiciary. The Garzon case is neither so absurd nor so difficult to understand if the record of the Spanish judiciary is examined through the prism of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195427
SKU
V9781845195427
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About Francisco Espinosa-Maestre
Francisco Espinosa-Maestre is a Spanish historian based in Seville. He has published various works on the Second Spanish Republic, the Spanish Civil War, Franco's repression and historical memory -- especially on the territory of Andalusia and Extremadura.
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