A few years ago, I went down to Granada to write the mandatory piece about Federico García Lorca that every English language journalist in Spain has to write at some point. I interviewed his niece, Laura, I visited the park dedicated to his memory in Alfacar, I walked up the slope, on the windy road out to Viznar, to try and find the place he was shot. Nothing new came out of it, just more useless, empty words piled onto the myth. Now, reports the Guardian, things are in place for an exhumation. I wouldn't agree with this if was simply about finding Lorca. What would the point be, given that, as his family agrees, it would only open up old wounds? But looked at from another point of view it's part of a larger process, the recuperación de la memoria histórica, and that I'm all in favour of. If you haven't done so already, then this is the must-read on Lorca's last days.