Teodulfo Lagunero, in memory

He has published memories He recounted his life and thus his struggle to achieve freedom in and in 2009, his freedom for himself and Spain, his first arrest as a law student in Valladolid, his beginnings as a child of the war in Valencia. from his desire for democracy and democratic freedoms to be a reality to his collaboration with the communist party and especially with Santiago Carrillo, as an academic professor and the start of a prosperous career in business. Supporters of Franco’s inaction have long since sunk into deep oblivion, waiting for the time to come to place him in his rightful place in history.

The reader, sometimes emotionally, sometimes sadly, participates in the vital evolution of Lagunero, whose origins are the son of a dismissed and marginalized republican institute professor, not quite fit to become one of the most influential businessmen one day. the politics of Spain and the republican exiles scattered around the world, who put their personal wealth at the disposal of the communist party. Studying Law at the University of Valladolid, afternoons working as a boatman on the Pisuerga River, his rebellion against an unjust dictatorship that imprisoned and tortured those who wanted a political system for Spain as it is today. After finishing his studies and being unable to practice law due to a criminal record as a result of his fight against Francoism, he decided to set up an academy of classes with a difficult start, the first step in his brilliant career as an entrepreneur. . They ran the academy and taught classes in the mornings, cleaned the classrooms with their mother in the afternoons, and slept on the floor at night. After hard work and opposition from the Professor of Commercial Law, his contact with the exiled Spanish communist party did not last long. In 1968, after the May Day demonstration in Paris, he met Marcos Ana, who opened the doors that took him to Santiago Carrillo and those around him. The transition had begun.

Although then it was a relatively short period of time, the intensity of what happened and the difficult puzzle of bringing together all the ruling political families make their heroes true examples of honesty and integrity that will undoubtedly be repeated in Spanish democracy. And this is despite the fact that, as Teodulfo Lagunero himself says several times in his memoirs, the real architect of the peaceful end of Francoism was the Spanish people, or at least the pro-democracy part. With every little advance that democracy made in the right direction, there was a section of society and the military that were scandalized and soared when it did not resort to violence. Teodulfo Lagunero, in his book, gave us a description of those few years, almost daily, with an increasing intensity that completely immersed us in the ins and outs of the coming of democracy. She is sometimes suspicious, while others fear that the threats her daughter and her eighty-year-old mother received in an anonymous letter may materialize. But moments of doubt always disappear, because as Mother Marcos once said, an unfighted Lagunero would be a caged wind. But returning to the importance that the Spanish transition and its heroes should have had for those born in the 70s, and the recognition that, despite this apparent distance, it must bestow upon the creators of my generation should be a starting point for reflection on the desired political situation. a model for our country, for the type of society we want to live in.