Word: protasio
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...during the Spanish Civil War, the mountain resort village of Cercedilla (current pop. 4,000), 35 miles north of Madrid, suffered its share of Nationalist vengeance. Some Republican sympathizers were imprisoned and a few were shot, while many more fled to exile. One of those never accounted for was Protasio Montalvo, the Socialist mayor of Cercedilla during part of the war. For years villagers wondered whether he had died fighting on some distant front or had been a victim of mass executions after the war or perhaps had taken up a new life in exile...
Last week they learned the answer-blinking in the bright sunlight, his hair snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
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