iggest human hunt in its history. They infiltrated a spy in his family, the husband of his wife. Then he convinced him to escape from Cantabria because he offer a safe way, a powerful motorbike. But that motorbike was a motorbike of Franco’s personal guard! So interest they had to hunt him. So the police knew all the movements and the route they were going to take. They settled cover guards and patrols in every corner of the way. Then at one point members of the political police (special branch) approached them in a car. Bedoya realized that he had been betrayed and kill the driver. They went to the ground. The policemen shoot him and he answer the fire. He was bounded many times but he managed to escape 400 metres up in a small hill shooting from there. In short time dozens of guards were in the scene with dogs. But they wait to the day light to pursuit him. So fear was he. The official history is that they found him dead. The forensic analysis said that a bullet in his temple carried out in a close distance finish his life. They are two possibilities: he killed himself as before some freedom fighters did or that when badly wounded was found and then murdered him. He pas away the 2 of december of 1957. His grave isn’t in a graveyard but always had nice flowers in it.
From Franco’s dead till the end of the XX century:
Franco’s successor is Juan Carlos I King of Spain. The genocidal Dictator assigned him as Head of State after his dead, and today is still in the place. The King of Spain is nowadays a healthy millionaire with many business around the world, even in the oil trade.
Basically the Spanish State remains the same spirit that with Franco. A Spanish nationalism/imperialism that fights against the wishes of freedom and recognition of the Countries. Even more deeply is the defend and loyalty to the Capitalists ideals. And finally but no less important he keep the influence of Catholic Church (not very openly) that still received money from the State, and of course its powerful voice is listen very important in Spanish politics and to the State.
They were many facial changes but inside the internal structures of the State didn’t change much. Most of its top members, Police officials and Army officials remain in their places. No a single genocide, no a single fascist was judge by the crimes they committed. Impunity became law and still remains like that. And the people that became rich by the looting of the possessions of many working class and middle class after the war are still rich.
In Cantabria after the black years, the genocide suffered and the killing of the last freedom fighters many good people refused to talk or even to think about politics. This still happens today in many elder and no so elder. Fear and the memory of the repression is too much for many people.
But the Red flame was still burning in our Country. Many socialist and communist remain active, even inside Christian- catholic organizations you found them and for example the 1 of May was celebrated secretly.
The workers keep getting organized. In the ’60 strikes started to be a reality, even under the dictatorship. Cantabria at that time was quite economically powerful and still have quite big industry and of course fishing industry, agricultural activity, and cows, the main animal of Cantabria. We export many milk. But some industries started to close or to fire workers. Even they were strikes for better conditions. The international revolutionaries winds reach our small country as well.
This developed in the ’70 with a powerful general left-wing mentality and young movement that even confront the fascist activists quite openly in the streets. Strikes were increasing. The trade-unions, with class conscious were very active in that time. The social and political scenes were boiling at that time. Were years of struggle and hopes in a better future, and more important, in a revolutionary future.
In the ’80 already with a “democracy” the social situation was still boiling. Still hard left-wing organizations and with very active class trade-unionist 