The rise and fall of an ‘uncontrollable’ in republican Spain: Luis Bonilla Echevarría 1936-1938
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Spain, political violence, 1936 Civil War, terror.Abstract
This article analyzes the career of a militia captain executed as an ‘uncontrollable’ by the Republic in 1938 to re-examine critically the utility of employing the concept of ‘uncontrollables’ to explain the terror in the Republican zone in 1936. The article suggests that the example of Bonilla illustrates the ambiguous reaction towards the terror shown by Republican military and police commanders as well as by Popular Front organizations during the civil war. While Bonilla was seen in the summer of 1936 as part of the necessary struggle against active but clandestine internal enemies, he was executed in 1938 for the brutal killing of ten suspected ‘fascists’ in the village of Los Navalucillos (Toledo) in September 1936 because his failure to join a Popular Front organisation left him vulnerable to charges that he was motivated by greed rather than the desire to defend the Republic.Downloads
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