Historical revisionism is once again stopped in Malaga Capital, where in 2006 the streets dedicated to the generals were eliminated Sanjurjo, Mola and Queipo de Llano and an avenue of the Generalissimo.
Since the Zapatero Historical Memory Law was activated a year later, the left has not stopped pointing to the rest of the ways with names that they consider must be eradicated by their reminiscences with Franco’s regime. Thus, in the city the Barriada Haza Cuevas, next to the Engineer of the Acosta Torre –Padre of the current mayor of the city, Francisco de la Torre–, made up of almost twenty streets dedicated to Francoist military as Captain Huelin or Ensign García Valdecasas.
UMA collaboration
Already in 2015, the PP government team at the Malaga City Council decided Retomar the Historical Memory Commissionwith representation of the five groups of the Corporation and the collaboration of the University of Malaga (UMA).
Three years later, an agreement was signed with the UMA to carry out a thorough study of the street with denominations that had Franco’s connotations, through Final Degree or Master’s projects proposed to students of their own chairs.
Apart from great heroes of Franco’s aviation, such as Carlos de Haya – the name of the hospital, before Carlos de Haya, changed in 2013 to Regional Hospital – or his concuado, Joaquín García Morato, highlights, for his kinship with the councilor, that of Torre Acosta. «The pulse will not shake if we have to take the commission and ultimately to the plenary session of the name of the Calle engineer of the Acosta Torrefather of the current mayor, ”said IU in his day.
The mayor of the city, Francisco de la Torre (PP), assured for his part that the renowing of the Malaga streets will be made “With the fulfillment of the law and with the maximum sensitivity in this issue.”
His father, Francisco de la Torre Acosta, was provisional Ensign, Lieutenant and Captain on the Francoist side during the Civil War. He participated in the front of Teruel and the Battle of the Ebro, but if he is remembered in the city, it is for his persistent claiming work in favor of a university for Malaga.
This was the reason why, On June 4, 1971, José Mir Bonet, municipal architect, requested the corporation The granting of a street with its name.
In this context, the Consistory has always defended the need to make a screen to know the degree of linking of each of the protagonists with the uprising of 1936 or the dictatorship. In the case of aviators, the Historical Memory Commission commissioned two reports to Determine the exact participation of Hague and García Morato in the military uprising and in the bombings of the civil war that are attributed to them, apart from investigating their merits in the General Military Archive of Segovia.
About Carlos de Haya, the conclusion was that there is no documentation that supports its involvement in “the Disbandá” – the attack on the civilian population on the road from Malaga to Almería – and as for the second it only made to swell its service sheet with episodes of respect for the enemy.
Death in an aerial exhibition
It must be remembered that the remains of the latter were discreetly reinhumuated by his family in 2021. He was buried since 1971 in the Chapel of the Brotherhood of Mercy, whose honorary older brother is the Air Force, and arrived there after having rested from his death in an air exhibition, on April 4, 1939, in the Malaga Cemetery of San Miguel. His relatives wanted to stop controversies like those generated by the burial of Queipo de Llano in the Basilica of La Macarena in Seville.
It is now that again there is a commitment to recover the Historical Memory Commission – in which memorialists will participate such as the Association against Silence and Oblivion -, to record an inventory of Francoist and propaganda symbols of the exaltation of the coup d’etat of 1936; the withdrawal of the names related to the dictatorship that survive in the municipal street; The implementation of a democratic interpretation center; Locate another interpretation center in the old prison of Cruz de Humilladero and incorporate signaling elements in those declared spaces of democratic memory in the institutional catalog. The latter is the case of the Cross of Torrijos, reminiscent of the liberals shot by order of Fernando VII in 1831.