El Ausente (original) (raw)

El Ausente -- A Spanish expression meaning "the Absent One". The Falangist supporters of Jos� Antonio Primo de Rivera called him by this name after his arrest by Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, to symbolize his importance as a leader of the Nationalist forces, despite his absence. He was put to death while imprisoned, and was subsequently made into a martyr of the Francoist r�gime.