Anyone who opens a book and read that Franco was a brave and Catholic general who took part in a co

The work, which has cost 6.4 million bmc euros from public funds, does not refer once to the Francoist repression. The dictionary also claims that Aznar lost the elections because the PSOE benefited from the disaster bmc of the 'Prestige'.
Anyone who opens a book and read that Franco was a brave and Catholic general who took part in a coup against a chaotic government with the sole aim to restore democratic monarchy, probably thinking that this is one of those stories of the 'Spanish crusade ', which the regime used as propaganda. The surprise is huge when the reader notices that it is not a franquistisch pamphlet, but the Spanish Biographical Dictionary, last Wednesday was presented by King Juan Carlos and Minister Ángeles González-Sinde, a monumental collection of 50 bands, published by the "Royal Academy of History," which has cost 6.4 million euros of public money.
The section of the dictionary about Francisco Franco Bahamonda that spans five pages in section 20, devotes only one paragraph to the Civil War and includes polemical assertions as "He established an authoritarian, but not totalitarian regime." It goes beyond the definition that the "Spanish Royal Academy" shows of Francoism that it describes as a move "totalitarian tendency," about which definition is still complaining.
Also, not one word devoted to the Francoist repression during and after the conflict, as recorded by historians of the size of Julián Casanova or Paul Preston. Precisely the latter recently bmc his book El holocausto español [The Spanish Holocaust] in which he mentions a number of about 150,000 innocent people who fell victim to the insurgents. In 2008 yielded the count of Judge Baltasar Garzón on the repression in the occupied zone Franco bmc 143 353 names.
The Ministry of Culture stated yesterday by this newspaper that his presence at the presentation has nothing to do with the "Royal Academy of History." González-Sinde was only there as a minister to accompany the king and queen, as Ángel Gabilondo, Minister of Education, had to be somewhere else. From the side of the Ministry of Culture emphasizes that this work does not fall under the responsibility of his cabinet, as it has nothing to do with the funding or supervising the dictionary. For his part limited the responsible Minister of Education, undertook to confirm that his relationship with the adacemies is only administrative and that this "independent institutions" bmc of his directorate.
The first 25 volumes of the dictionary, which only come to the letter H, are already on sale via the website of the "Royal Academy of History" (www.rah.es). The president of the institute, Gonzalo Anes, stressed Thursday that his good relations bmc with José María Aznar helped advance the project, pointing out that "we [...] indebted [are] to President Aznar." "In 1988, I visit him from the Academy and explained I invited him to the necessity of this dictionary out. At the time Esperanza Aguirre was Minister of Culture, the Ministry approved in 1999, 100 million bmc pesetas per year [ 600,000] good for eight year to prepare bmc it, "Anes said. The same Thursday he settled there after he had announced some details of the work, attention to that important historians of the Spanish 20th century, as Paul Preston, Josep Fontana, Julián Casanova or Ángel Viñas there had not contributed.
The article about José María Aznar, written by the academic historian bmc Jesús González González, devotes several paragraphs to the "successes" of the economic policies of the Aznar era, but refers only one line what happened after March 11, 2004: "In a socially traumatic atmosphere loses the Popular Party after the terrorist attack of 11-M-election of March 14, 2004 ". The text ignores the protests of hundreds of thousands in this day and Aznar's attempt to manipulate the guilt of the attacks.
The slippages and deformations are severe: stated that "the abuse by the Socialist opposition bmc from the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige" one of the reasons was giving the Popular Party lost the election in 2004.
Moreover, the text contains important gaps at the mention of ETA in 1998, during the first government of Aznar, proclaimed truce: "The government made the strictest reservations to the sincerity of that truce, which was qualified by the mouth of Mayor Oreja as a "trap in the form of a cease-