Valencia Trader

Born in Valencia

Valencia was the scene yesterday of the creation of a “Truth Commission” that is to examine ‘the depths of the long years that Spain was under the rule of General Francisco Franco’.  Created with the support of Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the  Commission members come from veteran international Socialist parties and include Danielle Miterrand, Francesco Cossiga, Mario Soares, Jorge Semprun, Gabriel Jackson and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, who, curiously enough, have not undertaken the creation of similar Commissions in their respective countries. Mr. Cossiga yesterday expressed the belief that after the Transition to Democracy in Spain ‘there was an unwritten agreement not to speak of the past and that this pact would last forever’. Many analysts have stated that with the creation of this Commission, Spain has now put itself on the same levels as El Salvador and Peru.