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ANALYSIS:The many dead in unmarked graves from Spain’s civil war continue to haunt the living, and reveal the unstable foundations of the country’s supposedly exemplary transition to democracy, writes PADDY WOODWORTH

LAST WEEK, Julio Alberto Poch, a 57-year-old Argentinian, working for a Dutch airline, was arrested as he stepped from his aircraft in Valencia, Spain.