¡Cómo no quererte, Alba!

The 10 of September of 1990, Begoña Garcia Arandigoyen, Alba, the young doctor from Gares, was shot during a confrontation between a patrol of the Armed Forces of El Salvador and a column of the guerrilla People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP), of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). According to the official version, the Basque volunteer died as a result of the crossing of firings between both. Nevertheless, the reality was another one: Alba was hurt and captured alive by the Salvadoran military. Then, she was raped, tortured and shot in the nape of the neck. The young woman was part of the sanitary staff of the guerrilla column that was riddled with bullets in the coffee plantations of the slopes of the volcano of Santa Ana.
This work is the history that could have been, the biography, sometimes imagined, sometimes real, of a great woman; a worthy revolutionary who died thousands of kilometres from her house, in a war against the injustice that she lived as hers. Alba shared out her love between two lands, between the marginalized ones, because as she used to say, the fight does not have borders.

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