Galíndez

About “Galíndez”

Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990. It centers on a real, dramatic, and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing, and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department, and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA. The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)