Source  – telesurtv.net

–  The Spanish poet was ordered to be killed by General Franco’s military for his politics, being a homosexual and a Freemason. The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was killed in the summer of 1936, only one month into the country’s Civil War, in what was always considered a mysterious death. However, according to new documents revealed Thursday, the poet’s death was actually an execution ordered by authorities. The newfound report states that the poet was killed under the orders of dictator General Fransisco Franco because he was believed to be gay, a practicing freemason and a communist. The execution statement was not written up until 1965, 29 years after his passing, but the report came to public light Thursday via Cadena Ser radio. Garcia Lorca was well known for his poetry and plays, particularly Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba. When he was killed at the age of 38, it was widely believed that he was executed by those sympathetic to Franco, but it was never proved or referred to during his subsequent 36-year dictatorship. He is now considered one of the highest profile victims of Franco’s regime, when an estimated tens of thousands of people went missing. The Spanish state has still not opened investigations into the disappearances and murders during the Civil War or Franco’s regime. “The serious thing for the government is that this informative note underlines the fact that Lorca was arrested under the orders of the civil government, that it was not a backstreet murder by some hothead. It was an official act,” said Ian Gibson, a Garcia Lorca biographer. The report confirms that the poet was “driven by nationalist forces to Viznar, Granada” in the south of Spain and “executed immediately after confessing.” It also confirms that his remains could be found near a region called Fuente Grande in an area very hard to locate. Over the years, various people have tried to locate the poet’s remains, but all efforts have been futile.