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Marcos Ana in Madrid (June 2009)

Fernando Macarro Castillo (20 January 1920 in Alconada – 24 November 2016 in Madrid), better known by his pseudonym Marcos Ana, was a Spanish poet and is considered by numerous sources Spain's longest serving political prisoner. Under the Francoist Spain, he was convicted of first degree murder of three people (a priest, a postman and a farmer) at the age of 19 in 1939, crimes he always denied having committed. He was released in 1961 after 23 years of imprisonment.[1]

He spent 23 years in prison, longer than any other republican combatant,[2] being released in 1961 and exiled in Paris. He told his story in the 2007 memoir Tell Me What a Tree Is Like.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Burnett, Victoria (28 October 2007). "Bill in Spanish Parliament Aims to End 'Amnesia' About Civil War Victims". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Marcos Ana". The Times. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

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