Jairo García Jaramillo
El presente artículo aporta argumentos para rechazar definitivamente el supuesto apoliticismo con que se ha querido definir al poeta Federico García Lorca, demostrando que se trata únicamente de un rumor que extendió el régimen de Franco para enmascarar su asesinato como revuelta callejera o rencilla familiar. La base documental aportada, desde sus propios testimonios hasta el último informe oficial publicado, revela, por el contrario, un indudable compromiso con los valores democráticos republicanos y la tradición ideológica de la izquierda.
This article presents evidence that rejects the supposed apolitical position in which the poet Federico García Lorca has often been categorized. A widespread slan- der, from the Franco dictatorship, has been to cover up the poet’s terrible murder as the result of a street riot or a family quar- rel. Furthermore, extensive records—from personal statements to recently published of cial papers—clearly re ect Lorca’s po- litical engagement, his unquestionable ten- dency to support the left in politics, and his Spanish Republican and democratic values