Abstract

Report Out of Spain

The night Rodriguez Vega, secretary of the General Workers Union who escaped from Spain, arrived in New York the author spent together. He had brought his story from Madrid, and he had to tell it to someone. It was a fresh story, the weeks he had spent in Portugal were not part of it. It was as though he had left Madrid the day before and had landed in New York after a non-stop flight. During the brief week that he was in New York before leaving for Mexico, the author saw him often, and he did the greatest part of the talking. In order to get his full impressions of three years of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco, one had to understand his state of mind. One had to allow him to draw out all the thoughts that had been accumulating for so long. Physically he was in New York. Spiritually he was still in the C´rcel Modelo, the main prison of Madrid.