El carlismo y su agónico final [The Carlism and its death end]

Abstract

Jaime Ignacio del Burgo describes the historical trajectory of the Carlism, a popular movement that had great importance in Spain throughout the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Also recounts the disintegration suffered by this political force from 1936 until today. In 1939, the requetés (Carlist soldiers) were able to participate in the «Victory Parade» at the end of the Civil War. The Carlism had won the war but lost the peace and Carlist political ideology had not the slightest relevance to the construction of the new State led by Franco. It happened that in 1936 Carlist king Alfonso Carlos I died childless. There was a large internal fracture in the Carlism considering...