page_title: Requetés
section_title: Navarre
hierarchical_section_title: Requetés / Legacy / Navarre
caption_attribution_description: Español: político español
context_page_description: The Requetés were members of the Carlist organization, Requeté. As an organised structure it operated between the mid-1900s and the early 1970s, though exact dates are not clear.
context_section_description: In Navarre the debate over the requeté past goes far beyond purging public space from Francoist remnants and re-appears in many other threads. In 2016 the local Navarrese parliament hosted on its premises an exposition of graphics named “Navarra-1936-Nafarroa”; in expressionist convention the drawings portrayed requetés and falangists as bloody assassins who mounted a murderous campaign of terror. Right-wing politicians declared that the exposition presented a false version of the past and defamed their ancestors. Eventually neither the pictures have been removed nor the wording changed, but the parliament president made some conciliatory comments. A longtime discussion over Museum of Carlism, an institution set up and financed by the regional self-government, climaxed in 2017. Democratic and Basque nationalist groupings claimed that authorities tolerated glorification of requeté and manipulated the past to cover up Carlist atrocities. They demanded re-organisation of expositions organized by the Museum, as the existing ones reportedly passed in silence over the requeté role in Francoist repression and the picture of Carlism as presented by the institution was generally misleading. The latest in a series of controversies is related to a Carlist religious service and a commemorative stone re-erected in Leitza in 2018; the event was attended by local parliamentarians from UPN and Navarra Suma. Navarrese left-wing politicians denounced the attempt to cherish the requeté tradition as fascism; the issue has been brought before the government, which refused to take action and declared that no law had been violated.
  Among Spanish official political groupings the one most vehemently pitted against the requeté tradition is Bildu, a Basque nationalist party very militant in Navarre. Non-political organizations active denouncing the Carlist militia as murderous criminals are Ateneo Basilio Lacort in Navarre and Asociación Para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica in Spain in general. Numerous historiographic studies on the Spanish Civil War often mention requeté as involved in repression and some works specifically target Carlism as co-responsible for crimes and atrocities. Defence of requeté is mounted by minuscule groups which claim the Carlist heritage, either from the Traditionalist or from the Socialist faction. Some sympathy is demonstrated by parties and groups related to Navarrismo, a centre-right local political current. At times nationally recognized personalities speak out in defense of requeté; this was the case e.g. of a Navarrese politician Jaime Ignacio del Burgo Tajadura or a business tycoon Luis Hernando de Larramendi y Martínez, both sons to former requetés; the latter presides over a foundation set up to protect the Carlist heritage. Historiographic works emerging in these circles challenge the notion of “memoria histórica” – the term which typically assumes a highly anti-Francoist tone - as false and prejudiced against requeté.
caption: Jaime I. del Burgo
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