Half an hour’s drive uphill from the busy beaches of Nerja, on Spain’s Costa del Sol, lies the isolated village of El Acebuchal, pretty but spookily quiet on a summer’s morning. Seventy-five years ago, its people were victims of a grievous injustice.
In August 1948, Francisco Franco’s Guardia Civil exacted a cruel and unusual punishment on every man, woman and child by summarily ordering them out of the in eastern Andalucía. Given no time to