The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced today that the files to declare Places of Memory will be opened to the penitentiary center of Tefía (Fuerteventura), where people were tortured during the Franco regime for their LGTBI status, and the Sima de Jinámar, volcanic tube in Gran Canaria to which they were thrown dead: “Wells must stop being forgotten so that from the institutions we turn them into places of restitution, recovery, dignity, freedom and democracy.”
Ángel Víctor Torres, who visited one of the graves in Tenoya, invited by Mayor Arucas, Juan Jesús Facundo, and together with Pino Sosa, president of the Association for the Historical and Democratic Memory of Arucas, recalled that “in this ‘well of oblivion’ there are 15 people, of which 7 have already been identified.”